We noticed that all of our bathrooms' wall sockets ran out of power at the same time, and it narrowed down to a 20A GFCI in the garage stuck in test mode, and reset switch was only able to reset once and stuck somehow afterward, then the reset switch fell out.
I replaced that Eagle 20A GFCI with a Leviton 15A AFCI/GFCI combination in a pinch. The socket works afterward for most stuff (including one of our hair dryer) but we have one loud hair dryer that just trip it within 5 seconds. The 2 red flashing LED on the Leviton said it is tripping AFCI. The hair dryer is a 1875W "Anton" (or something like that) from Target.
So is it the bad hair dryer arcing? or am I going from 20A to 15A being the problem? or I just shouldn't use something with AFCI in the circuit that feed into bathroom? Typically I use this hair dryer in the bedroom or kitchen and my wife uses hers in the bathroom. Problem happened since about 3 days ago, I forgot if I accidentally tripped the test button in the garage, or something else.
I replaced that Eagle 20A GFCI with a Leviton 15A AFCI/GFCI combination in a pinch. The socket works afterward for most stuff (including one of our hair dryer) but we have one loud hair dryer that just trip it within 5 seconds. The 2 red flashing LED on the Leviton said it is tripping AFCI. The hair dryer is a 1875W "Anton" (or something like that) from Target.
So is it the bad hair dryer arcing? or am I going from 20A to 15A being the problem? or I just shouldn't use something with AFCI in the circuit that feed into bathroom? Typically I use this hair dryer in the bedroom or kitchen and my wife uses hers in the bathroom. Problem happened since about 3 days ago, I forgot if I accidentally tripped the test button in the garage, or something else.