Hi Everyone,
I have a question regarding GFCI AFCI Breakers in my main panel. I have a Siemens residential household box with QP breakers. I wanted to replace a standard one with a GFCI AFCI Breaker. I noticed that the cable conduit that houses that circuit has a black, red, and white wire. The Red wire goes to the breaker load and the white goes to the neutral bar. The Black wire in the same conduit goes to the load on the breaker below that one.
So what I did was replace the breaker with the red load wire with the GFCI Breaker and moved the white neutral from the bar to the GFCI AFCI breaker and then took the white pigtail on the breaker and moved it to the neutral bar. The issue that I am finding is that I can't have power on to both that breaker and the normal breaker below it that share the 1 wire in the conduit.
Are there suggestions to handle this situation? Both worked fine with when using normal breakers but I can't figure out how to use the GFCI AFCI breaker in this scenario.
Thanks for the input
Jake
I have a question regarding GFCI AFCI Breakers in my main panel. I have a Siemens residential household box with QP breakers. I wanted to replace a standard one with a GFCI AFCI Breaker. I noticed that the cable conduit that houses that circuit has a black, red, and white wire. The Red wire goes to the breaker load and the white goes to the neutral bar. The Black wire in the same conduit goes to the load on the breaker below that one.
So what I did was replace the breaker with the red load wire with the GFCI Breaker and moved the white neutral from the bar to the GFCI AFCI breaker and then took the white pigtail on the breaker and moved it to the neutral bar. The issue that I am finding is that I can't have power on to both that breaker and the normal breaker below it that share the 1 wire in the conduit.
Are there suggestions to handle this situation? Both worked fine with when using normal breakers but I can't figure out how to use the GFCI AFCI breaker in this scenario.
Thanks for the input
Jake