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Originally Posted by Rick Lee
The red button on top? It only bounces back out, does not stick in.
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I've had bad GFCI's right out of the box. Plus, they get old they get cranky. Took me forever to figure out there wasn't a problem with my camper when I plugged it into my back yard GF circuit which kept tripping.
Red button should stay in.
If the GFCI is functioning properly but it keeps tripping (or won't reset) there's a fault somewhere in the circuit which could even be inside the switch to the disposal.
Way back when, as the story is told, Uncle Bob's basement flooded and the single basement lightbulb went kaput which needed replacing. So Uncle Bob is standing on a chair in knee-deep water in his basement very awkwardly leaning waaaay over to gingerly unscrew the old and screw in the new on a hot circuit standing on a chair, in the water, at night and in the dark. Pretty funny-looking situation.
My cousin (Bob's eldest daughter) thought it so funny that she'd decided to take a snap of the operation with her old-timey flash camera.
POPFLASH!
Over goes Bob thinking he'd got himself zapped right onto the murky drink of backed-up sump water.
Uncle Bob was last seen very wet and very angry chasing the laughing photographer around the back of the house with a hammer.