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| Sep 15, 2013 at 1:23 | history | edited | Niall C.♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 15, 2013 at 0:55 | comment | added | Stefan Lasiewski | This almost sounds like the outlet under a kitchen sink, where there is a single duplex receptacle with one circuit for a dishwasher and a second circuit for a garbage disposal. | |
| Sep 15, 2013 at 0:29 | comment | added | bib | What are the colors of the three wires? Do you know if the same circuit breaker currently controls both the upper and lower outlets? | |
| Sep 15, 2013 at 0:23 | comment | added | BMitch | It sounds like you're describing a multi wire branch circuit. You cannot connect a normal GFCI receptacle as you're describing because you'll effectively have a shared neutral with one of the hots on the gfci. See How do I install a GFCI receptacle with two hot wires and common neutral? and Is this a “shared neutral” situation? | |
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| Sep 14, 2013 at 23:59 | history | asked | user15099 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |