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DaOld Man:

A GFCI (Ground Fault Circuit Interrupter, [your bathroom and outside receptacles]) is set to trip at 4-10 MA, if this tells you anything.

A personal note from Prof. Benny B. Expert:
"A GFCI works by measuring the current on both the hot and neutral wires.
 If the current is different by 4 to 10 MA, it means that some current is going elsewhere, so the GFCI trips, opening the circuit and turning off the power to the circuit. You can test a GFCI by pushing the test button on the receptacle (or breaker), or by putting a jumper wire between the neutral and the ground of the outlet."
So, according to the Prof, if you have some GFCI breakers or outlets tripping intermittently, you may have the neutral and the ground circuits downstream getting together (moisture can do this too.)

DaOld Man:


--- Quote from: yaksplat on February 03, 2013, 01:36:22 pm ---The damage found so far:

1 power supply
1 motherboard
(cpu and memory status are unknown)
2 led-wiz boards.  Neither are recognized by the system.  One has bleed between ports if terminals are shorted to ground.  At least all of the leds on the system survived though.

doh...
 :banghead:

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That really sucks man, sorry about your loss.

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