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2. Electrical outlet tester - Wikipedia

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   A receptacle tester being used to check for some types of improper wiring of an outlet. For this particular tester, proper wiring is indicated by the two yellow lights. The outlet tester checks that each contact in the outlet appears to be connected to the correct wire in the building's electrical wiring. It can identify several common wiring ...

3. Three-prong adaptor - Wikipedia

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   This is called a "false" or "bootleg" ground and is a serious safety hazard [10]: 49 often undetected by common receptacle testers. [1]: 48–49 Replacing the obsolete receptacle with a GFCI receptacle is the safest alternative, other than installing a new cable from the main circuit breaker panel.

4. Bootleg ground - Wikipedia

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   In addition, a fault condition to a bootleg ground will not trip a GFCI breaker, nor protect a receptacle that is wired from the load side of a GFCI receptacle. [ 2 ] Before 1996, in the United States it was common to ground the frames of large 120/240-volt permanently-connected appliances (such as a clothes dryer or oven ) to neutral conductors.

5. Residual-current device - Wikipedia

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   A residual-current device (RCD), residual-current circuit breaker (RCCB) or ground fault circuit interrupter (GFCI) [a] is an electrical safety device that interrupts an electrical circuit when the current passing through a conductor is not equal and opposite in both directions, therefore indicating leakage current to ground or current flowing to another powered conductor.

6. Arc-fault circuit interrupter - Wikipedia

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   This AFCI (the circuit breaker with the yellow label) is an older generation AFCI circuit breaker. The current (as of 2013) devices are referred to as "combination type." An arc-fault circuit interrupter ( AFCI ) or arc-fault detection device ( AFDD ) [ 1 ] is a circuit breaker that breaks the circuit when it detects the electric arcs that are ...

7. 12 reasons you aren't losing weight even though you're eating ...

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   Those on the ultra-processed diet ate around 500 more calories per day and gained about one pound over the two-week testing period. Ultra-processed foods don't just add empty calories—they're ...

8. 26-year-old California man mauled by his 3 dogs; animals ...

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   A California man died and a Good Samaritan is facing serious injuries after being attacked by dogs last week. According to a statement from the San Diego Humane Society obtained by USA TODAY, the ...

9. California mom shot and killed by her 2-year-old; boyfriend ...

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   A California woman was fatally shot by her 2-year-old toddler, leading to the arrest of her boyfriend who is accused of failing to properly store the weapon, Fresno police said this week.