Foto-n-T
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Yesterday afternoon while sitting outside I noticed that my outside light timer that controls the wifes accent lights in the yard was off. Having had this issue before when it rains I pretty much figured that the GFI in the bathroom had tripped, the problem is that it hadn't been raining or even humid. I went in the house and reset the GFI in the bathroom and all was fine, right up until 05:44 this morning. That's when we both were woke up by a loud "BUZZING" noise coming from the GFI outlet. I got up and hit the test button on the GFI and the buzzing stopped, of course this also meant that I had killed every outlet that is daisy chained to it down stream. Being mostly asleep and my brain wasn't engaged fully I then hit the reset button on the GFI, the buzzing returned. This time when I went to hit the test button nothing happened, I couldn't get the thing to trip no matter how many times I hit the test button so out to the living area I went to throw the breaker which stopped the buzzing.
Unfortunately I have to go back to work this morning so chasing parts isn't gonna happen in a real hurry, in the meantime the coffee maker is in the garage along with the electric toothbrush and if we want a fan in the bedroom it's going to be at the end of an extension cord. This is a new one to me, I've never had a GFI of any sort fail other than through constant overload and this thing just doesn't take a lot of abuse. Does anybody have any clue as to what happened here?
Unfortunately I have to go back to work this morning so chasing parts isn't gonna happen in a real hurry, in the meantime the coffee maker is in the garage along with the electric toothbrush and if we want a fan in the bedroom it's going to be at the end of an extension cord. This is a new one to me, I've never had a GFI of any sort fail other than through constant overload and this thing just doesn't take a lot of abuse. Does anybody have any clue as to what happened here?
