holy sh$t i almost burnt the house down

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Originally Posted by StirCrazy

it would only trip if the drip created a short to ground. if it was between the hot and common then no trip.

Steve

Certainly when a powerbar gets wet current will leak to ground. Any ground fault and the GFI trips in 5ms.

The problem could be that he used a GFCI power bar and not a GFCI recepticle. The power bar triped sure but the outlet feeding the powerbar is still going hence if the power bar is really wet and there is still power to the powerbar, this could cause a fire potentially.