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Old 07-02-2025, 08:20 PM
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Ok I think I figured it out. When pushing the outlet back in Box the grounding wire was probably touching the common side of the outlet. When I would plug something in drawing current from outlet I guessing with ground touching outlet at common connection it would trip breaker. I tighten up grounding screw in box and when putting outlet back in it wasn’t touching. I know this cause when I took it apart again for photo the problem was back with red dimly lite. I bent ground wire back so it wasn’t close and problem fixed again.

The photo show grounding wire by red arrow. The left arrow show where the ground wire was making contact with common side when I pushed back in box, the center top arrow show where ground wire comes in from breaker box. The red arrow on right shows box grounding screw I found that was very loose.

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