What is a Ground Fault Circuit Interrupter and how does it work?
Have you ever experienced an electric shock? If you did, the shock probably happened because your hand or some other part of your body contacted a source of electrical current and your body provided a path for the electrical current to go to the ground, so that you received a shock. My first experience with such was in the 60’s when my baby brother determined that the outlet at the bar in the kitchen was the ignition for Moms car keys. Luck for me and my brother, my Dad being in construction, had instructed me on electrical shock and instead of grabbing him, I hit him as hard as I could knocking him across the room saving his life. My brother’s reaction, “Mommy, Chris hit me!” I was saved from a beating by the charred key projecting from the outlet and the burns on his hands. Had there been today’s required GFCI, I would have been dead meat, not from electrocution, but from my Mother. You’ve seen the moves, unwanted wife/husband/girlfriend dead in the bathtub from the hair dryer fallin
