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Originally Posted by wdfifteen
I have a question, as I'm not sure what's going on.
Do you have a circuit with one plain outlet and a GFCI breaker, or a circuit with a standard breaker and a GFCI outlet?
Is this outlet the only one on the circuit?
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It is a GFCI
breaker, a single wire (no junction boxes, lights, etc.) to a single receptacle. The receptacle is a normal $2 receptacle, not a GFCI, and it is the ONLY thing on the circuit.
That's the baffling part: It's literally just breaker-wire-outlet, with nothing else there to interfere. If it isn't the outlet (I've tried other outlets already), then it's either two bad breakers (possibly the same bad batch from the same Lowe's, purchased several months apart?) or something wrong with the interconnecting wiring.
Some other ideas that I'll try tomorrow morning:
1 - Pull the receptacle out of the circuit, remove the breaker, and check for even minute grounds between branches.
2 - Swap this GFCI breaker with another one of the GFCI breakers in the same panel. See if the problem follows the breaker or the circuit.
3 - Try a normal breaker (I do have spare 20A breakers) with a GFCI outlet (I'd have to go buy one). Or just a normal breaker with a normal outlet, for temporary.