It does throw a spark any time I plug it in, but when I googled that it seems it’s to be expected because there’s no way to plug in a refrigerator that doesn’t immediately pull electricity (no “off” button). The refrigerator is like a month old, so that seems really odd. Results were normal, but it meant I took a very close look at the plug, which appears to be slightly damaged. With my troubleshooting today, something I came across in my reading on appliance repair forums suggested to check the (unplugged) outlet with a multimeter. Something did change how I’m viewing the inconsistencies between blank face and duplex gfci with this refrigerator. Also tried power strip into outlet and refrigerator in power strip, because who knows at this point. Meanwhile the refrigerator on a countertop gfci (different circuit) isn’t tripping at all, even though there are other things running on that circuit. I’ve had a power strip plugged in for like an hour powering a lamp and a power tool charger. Got the new Leviton blank face and the problem is still the same. I've tested the line wires, wires when connected to gfci, load wires coming off gfci (before connecting to receptacle), and receptacle (after connecting load wires) with the Fluke and everything is 120v neutral to hot and 120v ground to hot.Įdit: Moving too fast. After about 10-15 seconds it changes to "Fault, open ground, >30v" but I looked into that and apparently that's normal? Outlet tester says it's correctly wired and when I test from outlet tester it trips instantly. I will try that - thanks for the suggestion!įor testing, I have both an outlet tester and Fluke T-5 600. I haven't actually tried a GFCI receptacle downstream from the blank face. I also tried a (new) duplex receptacle downstream from blank face and it also tripped. I have two (new) single receptacles and tried both downstream of the blank face GFCI (and tried two blank face GFCIs, one Leviton and one Aida).
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