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Originally Posted by Lefty02
Evidently, your latest reply came as I was posting mine. I’m trying to visualize your circuit path, but I’m a little slow and still trying to understand your issue. Normally, a black (power) wire exposed to ground would trip a breaker and possibly a GFCI. It seems the issue, as you eluded to, is the storage shed leg of the circuit. Since it seems quite a bit of rewiring has gone on, ensure all the connections are properly wired; black to black, white to white and so on.
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I got it to work (kind of) so it make be easier to pick up from what I did tonight.
The electrical flow is as below
Circuit panel 15 amp breaker => new GFCI = old receptacle box w/new non GFCI receptacle = storage shed with switch & light.
The issue is with the wires coming out old receptacle box w/new non GFCI receptacle going to storage shed with switch & light.
What I did today....
I cut off about 6 inches of Neutral, Ground, & Hot and then started connecting to the old receptacle box w/new non GFCI receptacle
When I connected all 3 wires it still tripped, but when I disconnected the ground it worked. If I connect just the hot wire it did not trip, if I connect just the neutral wire it did not trip, but as soon as I add the ground wire it tripped.
So for tonight everything is working, but the ground wire in the old receptacle box w/new non GFCI receptacle is not connected.
If this is okay I will need to splice some wires to extend the UF-B wire 6 - 8 inches so I can mount it back properly inside old receptacle box.
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