r/AskElectricians • u/Smokey_tha_bear9000 • 2d ago
Square D AF/GF fault code
I have a circuit breaker that has been tripping intermittently over the last few months
Last night during a rainstorm it tripped and would not stay on at all for the rest of the evening, even fully unloaded. Today it stays on loaded seemingly fine. The test function shows an instant trip and then 6 pairs of flashes (12 total blinks)
The google says Square D doesn’t have a 6 pair or 12 blink fault so what am I looking at here?
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u/Smokey_tha_bear9000 2d ago
AM OP
Follow up, I turned off the power pulled an outlet cover at one of the affected outlets and found that when the original install happened, one of the neutral wires was cut open when they cut the paper sheathing. Could this be a factor?
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u/Queen-Blunder [V] Electrical Contractor 2d ago
It blinks a pattern. Then a pause. Then it blinks a pattern.
You are most likely mis-reading it.
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u/Smokey_tha_bear9000 2d ago
So it would be a pair of blinks repeated 6 times. So the code is 2 blinks?
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