[Jukebox-list] "Grounding" ?

[Steve Wahl]

On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 02:44:19PM -0800, david wendell wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Ron and Jay, Thank You for this information.  I have
> it printed out so it will be around until the estate
> sale people visit my home to sell all my stuff.
> 
> I understood the GFI circuits but never could decide
> about grounding my jukeboxes.  I really appreciate the
> education.  
> 
> Today the home builders(here)have a GFI in one of the
> bathrooms which serves all exterior outlets as well as
> both bathrooms and the garage.  I find that very
> annoying and wish I had the presence of mind to have
> had several GFI breakers installed in the house
> service panel.  Just the circuits serving the
> jukeboxes would be great.   I suppose it is never too
> late.

There is a fairly easy fix to this:  Trip the test button on the GFI
outlet.  Find all of the downstream outlets that are protected by it.
Buy that many GFI outets at your local Menards, Home Depot, Lowes,
etc., plus whatever exterior gaskets / face plates / etc. you need to
fit these in the other positions.

Be aware that my experience is some GFIs are cheap, but in some cases
you get what you pay for (test button no longer trips it after a year,
etc.).

Turn off the supply breaker, replace all the downstream outlets with
their own GFI, and pull out the original GFI.  On the back of that
original GFI, there's a connection to feed the protected downstream
outlets.  Since they all now have their own protection, you can
connect them directly to the incomming supply with a couple of
pigtails and wire nuts.

BTW, GFI breakers are (were?) usually much more expensive than
outlets -- although I haven't checked lately.

Oh, and YMMV, don't try this at home, get a licensed electrician,
don't expect to hold me responsible for your work.

--> Steve
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