My kid for some reason thinks I know stuff about houses, just because I've lived in one for most of the last 69 years. He called to tell me the lights--hardwired--in his bedroom were out. Everything else in the house was fine. I didn't know the answer, he finally figured out it was a tripped GFCI. He says there are two that cover his entire 3BR 2 story house. I have an older house and have seen GFCI's only on outlet circuits, not on lighting circuits, so GFCI didn't occur to me (even though I had two separate garage door GFCI's trip within a week of each other in the last month). Is this something new in the code, something particular to his house, which is 5 years old, or something that's been code all along and my house is wired wrong? If it makes any difference his house has solar panels and batteries and he sells excess electricity to the utility district. Just curious, I have no intention of touching his electric.
It does seem like having a single GFCI cover a lot of circuits would make it a pain in the ass to figure out what is tripping it if it keeps tripping.
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