SAS
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Last night the outlet in the master bedroom bathroom stopped working. It's a GFCI so I tried resetting it, but that didn't work. I went to bed thinking I would just buy a new one and replace it today, but some time during the night it occurred to me that it might be linked to another GFCI in one of the other bathrooms. So in the morning I checked two of the downstairs bathrooms and discovered that the outlets there were out as well. The first couldn't be reset but the second one could. I then retraced my steps, resetting the other two GFCI's.
I don't think it's a code violation to have them daisy chained like this, but I don't see why you would do it this way. I know that I could change out the downstream GFCI's for regular outlets, but I'm thinking it's easier (and maybe better?) to simply switch the feed at the downstairs GFCI's from the protected side to the line side. That way each GFCI would operate independently. Make sense?
I don't think it's a code violation to have them daisy chained like this, but I don't see why you would do it this way. I know that I could change out the downstream GFCI's for regular outlets, but I'm thinking it's easier (and maybe better?) to simply switch the feed at the downstairs GFCI's from the protected side to the line side. That way each GFCI would operate independently. Make sense?