Your single-pole breaker trips, because you put more than 28 amps of electricity on a circuit designed for 20 amps. If that happens occasionally, you can just go to the panel and reset the breaker .

Yet, the circuit remained energized! In the examined cases, failures of the GFCI sensing circuits were mostly due to damage to the internal transient voltage surge protection (metal-oxide varistors) ...

In areas of high lightning activity, such as southwest Florida, the failure rate for GFCI circuit breakers and receptacles was over 50%! GFCIs will also fail if you wire them improperly. The most ...

What’s better, a GFCI outlet or a GFCI circuit breaker? BILL H., CASPER, WYOMING. Both are equally lifesaving devices that have contributed to the steady drop in electrocutions from consumer ...

Automation Systems Interconnect, Inc. announces the release of a new panel interface connector that is equipped with a GFCI AC Outlet and hydraulic magnetic circuit breaker.