I just bought this house, and the circuit in the garage was functioning fine. I have a GFCI and one downstream receptacle on a certain branch. There are other GFCIs on this circuit, but not in line with these two (as far as I can tell).
After coming back from a trip, I found that two GFCI branches would not hold load. After replacing the GFCI on one branch, it is functioning well.
I replaced the other GFCI and the downstream still won't take load. I removed the downstream outlet and replaced it. In the process, I am finding that whenever I hook the ground up to the downstream receptacle, it will not take load. If the ground is NOT connected, it will take load.
I can't figure out what changed, or why this is ocurring.
I don't want to just wire nut the ground wire off, but it is tempting.
Any help is appreciated.
Best Answer
I was thinking the same as user19141. You can have more than one GFCI on a single branch circuit. But only if they are wired correctly. If we pretend we are electrons traveling down your circuit, It would leave the panel and go to your first GFCI at some point. If than at that first GFCI you leave that box on the load screws on your GFCI and run to a couple more plugs, than another GFCI. It will not work properly. The point being that another GFCI can not be ran off the load side of another GFCI. Perhaps this is the case? And it just started acting up because thats the way it goes sometimes!