GFCI's are installed in bathrooms and kitchens because you are literally
surrounded by potential grounds. The plumbing system! Running Water! Metal
Basins! etc...

You can hold an AC hot wire and not get shocked if you are not grounded....

Not the name is GROUND FAULT CIRCUIT INTERRUPTER... You have to have a
ground fault to trip the circuit interrupter....


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"Pszemol" wrote in message
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"J" wrote in message
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Without a grounding probe how will the leaking voltage trip the GFCI.
It WONT,

Yes, it would, using your body grounded to the floor as a conductor.
How is a GFCI working in your bathroom without "grounding probe"? :-)
How is a GFCI on your hair-dryer working without a probe? :-)

YOU WILL BE THAT PATH for the potential/voltage in the tank.

Exactly.
This is the reason GFCI will trip on a safe level of current.
No GFCI manufacturer is selling their device as protecting
against electrick shock. They sell these to prevent you being
KILLED by the electric current. You can still feel a sting.

I myself would rather a GFCI trip once in a while rather than
electrocute myself but to each his own.

Right. And since I know in an event of a device leaking I would
NOT be electrocuted because GFCI will tripp BEFORE the current
rises to a dangerous levels, I do not see the reason to use probe.

I'm in my third semster in
Electronics and have a certificate in Electrical as well as H.V.A.C. and
have worked in Commercial building automation so you decide who to
believe.
GFCI's NEED GROUNDING to work properly it says so on the box.

:-))) Oh well... Good luck in your study :-)

I think I made my point but I do not expect to convince everyone.