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Leviton is the brand I usually go for and I love their clamping system for wiring the device

Reviewed in the United States on August 21, 2017

Well, Leviton is the brand I usually go for and I love their clamping system for wiring the device. I purchased two of these for such a great price. However, I wired one GFCI with two regular receptacles going downstream that are "GFCI protect outlets".

Here is my complain, I used my tester and all three devices in the circuit says "Correct" when I test them for proper wiring. I used my meter and all three give me 120v. So all is good so far. However, when I test and "reset" the GFCI, the LED light flashes ONCE and the LED light states blank. NO GREEN LIGHT.

Has anyone else had this issue?

So Wiring is correct, all receiving 120v but the LED status light blinks ONCE at reset and is OFF BUT the devices are all working properly.

Defective?

UPDATE: 8/23/17: I spoke with a tech support representative last night at Leviton and I questioned the above statement. Per the tech, Leviton has "significantly" reduced the brightness of the LED status light and he recommended looking at the status light at NIGHT TIME and I did just that. The light is faintly green but it is functional and operating properly. Customers were complaining about the LED status light being TOO bright in their homes that was more of a distraction while siting in a darken room. Makes sense.

Also, the ONE BLINK of red status light the moment you reset the GFCI is NORMAL according to the representative that I spoke to.

Overall, I am happy with my purchase! Thanks!

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Howard L. Sheppard

Faulty out of the box!

Reviewed in the United States on March 3, 2018

I’ve purchased a few of these with good results until this one. Bought this one to replace a 13 yr old GFI that would trip occasionally. Read the instructions and replaced my old one lead-for-lead. Green ‘test’ light on and no test/reset regardless of what I did. Put the old one back in and threw this unit in the trash. China QC (or lack, thereof) strikes again. Won’t be purchasing more of these.

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Timothy Ryan Sharp

Leviton is the brand I usually go for and I love their clamping system for wiring the device

Reviewed in the United States on August 21, 2017

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Golan Remi

Works great, read the instruction before you start!

Reviewed in the United States on September 21, 2019

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I noticed that many complain here about the green light coming on, but the GFCI still not working. The problem is that many people just copy the cable locations using the old GFCI as reference. The location of the Line (Hot) input may be different on this unit compared with the old one. Make sure you identify the Line (Hot) wire in the wall and connect it to the Line Hot connector. Then connect the White wire of the same pair to the Line White side. If you have 2 pairs of wires, meaning one Hot and the other for the load (remote outlet being fed and protected by the GFCI), then connect the second (not hot pair) to the Load part of the GFCI, Black wire to Load Hot and White wire to Load White.

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T'Kope

WIRING IS REVERSED LOOK AT THE DIAGRAM!

Reviewed in the United States on May 11, 2020

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To preface, I have installed/replaced at least a few GFCI outlets in my life with success, and this is the first time I came across one that was wired the opposite of all the other GFCI outlets I have worked with.
Every other time I replaced one, I simply pulled the old one out, and went around the connectors, detaching wires from the old one, and attaching them to the new one, one by one, to make sure I didn't mix up any wires, and to make sure they got wired to the correct connectors (I'm not an electrician, so I just go based off of looks for the most part, and a little common sense).

Well this particular Leviton GFCI took me 3 tries to get right, and I only discovered the issue after looking at the wiring diagram, looking at the back of the Leviton GFCI, and then cross referencing with the back of the two older GFCI's I had laying around (I originally replaced the old 20amp with a new 15amp which was the only one at my local store, and then ordered this one to replace the 15 amp since it's a 20amp circuit), and this is what I discovered:
The standard wiring (or what I am calling standard based off of majority vote from every GFCI I have purchased/pulled from walls), if you are looking at the back side of the GFCI, is as follows:
At the top you have your two LOAD charges, black/live connects to the left, and white connects to the right
At the bottom the have your two LINE charges, again with black/live on the left, and white on the right
And finally on the very bottom/underside you have your ground wire connection point

Every GFCI outlet I have experience was wired as such, and this is how the Leviton GFCI differs:
At the top, instead of 2 load charges, the two LINE connections are on the top this time, still with black/live on the left, and white on the right
At the bottom you now have two LOAD CHARGE connections instead of the 2 line connections, and again still black/live on the left and white on the right
And then still the ground connector is on the very bottom/underside

To summarize: normally GFCI outlets have the LINE connections at the bottom near the ground connection, and the LOAD up top, but these Leviton GFCI outlets have the LOAD connections at the bottom with the ground, and the LINE up top.
This means if you wire the outlet exactly like the one that was in your wall it will not work. you have to flip your black wires, and flip your white wires
For me 2 black were on top and 1 black on bottom, and 2 white on top 1 white on bottom, and had to change it to 1 black on top and 2 black on bottom, and 1 white on top and 2 white on bottom)

Other than that, the GFCI works as it should and solved the electrical issues I was having in this room.
Just, you know, look at the thing before you put it in..

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Buster Brown

Works fine with a two wire system. Be sure to read directions.

Reviewed in the United States on December 6, 2016

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I'm a total amateur at electrical work. My home has nothing but two prong outlets, which is increasingly frustrated as I often have to resort to the little adapters which I don't prefer. I did some research about switching to three prong outlets and also discovered that my house (built 1957) apparently only has two wires in the circuits. My bathroom had had a long fluorescent tube fixture above a large mirror, but at some point it was taken out and a rig made that was unsightly and likely dangerous. An antique wall mounted gas lamp converted to a light socket had been mounted to one side of the mirror. To power this, someone had found a very thin gauge cord with one plug which split into two 6 foot extension cords. Very odd. The lamp was plugged into one end and the other plug in was left loose on the opposite side of the mirror. This cord was so old it didn't even have the socket with one larger opening for polarized plugs. But worse was that they'd simply wrapped a wire coming out of the wall through the little hole in the end of each prong of the plug and wrapped some electrical tape around it.
I did a little research and found that GFCI outlets can be wired to two wire systems and provide a level of protection even without a ground.
So I ordered this and wired it to the wires coming out of the wall by sticking the wires straight in the clamps. (it has an option to either clamp onto straight wire or to loop the wire traditionally) I pressed the test and reset buttons to see if they worked, which turned out to be a mistake. I reset the circuit breaker and turned on the switch that the outlet was wired to. The status light on the outlet blinked red but then would go out, and when I plugged in the lamp, nothing worked. I knew that I had it wired correctly, so I was at a loss as to why it wouldn't work. I gave up and pirated an unused two prong outlet from the basement and attached that and it worked.
The next day I kept thinking about it and then I did what I always do, but hadn't this time... I actually read the directions.
I found that it ships with the test switch tripped. It said to plug in a lamp or something and then restore the power and press the reset button and it should work. SO... I took off the old outlet and re-wired this outlet, this time by looping the wire around the screw. I did as the instructions said and after fiddling with the test and reset buttons, I must have done it in the correct order and much to my relief, it worked as intended. Now when I flip the switch the green light goes on and there's power to the lamp. I also mounted a power strip to the second plug in and now have three pronged outlets available.

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Mr. Stick

Works great and the LED indicator is a must

Reviewed in the United States on February 27, 2019

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This Leviton GFNT1-W replaces a standard GFCI receptacle that went bad.

Pros
LED indicator shows that it is working
Safety feature does not allow it to work if the wiring is incorrect
Safety feature does not enable the circuit until after a self-test - read the instructions carefully!

Cons
Could not find the model with the hidden screws

Installation experience
Finding which GFCI receptacle had gone bad took some time as the ones that builders use do not have a LED status indicator. Once found I transposed the cables and guess what, the cables were wired incorrectly when the house was built! Fixed the circuit wiring, did the self test using a lamp, and everything was working after that.

Something to note is this model does not have the child safety feature that prevents inserting sharp objects into the slots. In my state GFCI receptacles are installed high out of the reach of children. Consider a model with this feature because kids love to play with the buttons and the green LED light will definitely call their attention.

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Scrabble Fan

Reset button hard to push

Reviewed in the United States on August 28, 2017

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Both the electrical outlets I replaced had four wires, two black and two white, plus a ground. I wired the two new gfci outlets up using only the line connections, not the load, because I didn't want to affect any outlets down the line (disclaimer: I'm not an electrician, so wire at your own risk! :) I now have power at both receptacles and the green indicator lights are on, so I'm assuming they're going to work properly. However, the reset button on each is very hard to push in. This caused me a ton of grief because I thought I had miswired the outlets when I couldn't get the buttons pushed in. I decided to call an electrician to install them. I called five electricians and, getting no answer on their phones or not getting a call back when I left a message, I finally reached a kind, overworked electrician who said he couldn't get here until next week but offered the advice that I would have to push very hard to reset the outlets. He said the buttons on the Leviton gfci outlets he has installed in the past few months have been so hard to push that he thought at first they were defective. I thanked him for his advice, tried it and it worked. I screwed the outlets firmly into the wall and used the end of a wooden spoon to push hard on the reset button. It did take some pressure to get it to work.

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Ashley

works great

Reviewed in the United States on August 21, 2020

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Installed it by copying the wire placement from the old GFCI, green light came on but could not test/reset. Scrolled through reviews and found one that said what I did doesnt always work. Sure enough I pulled the new one back out and compared it to the old one... "line" and "load" were flip flopped. So I re-wired accordingly, and what do you know! It worked!

We have been without outlets in both bathrooms for MONTHS because the sole GFCI was bad, and neither my husband nor I thought it was something we could change. After my dad told me it wasn't much different than changing a regular outlet (which I have done), I went for it. Other than that small hiccup, it was very easy. I like that it has little pockets to slide the wires into vs having to wrap the wires around the screws.

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Lou J. Anschuetz

Works well. Newer brighter LED

Reviewed in the United States on January 30, 2022

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We've purchased several of these as all of them in our home have failed at around 10 years of age. They are a bit slimmer than the original outlets and thus easy to install. Well marked on back for line and load. Plenty of room behind the screws for wire with a good tightening mechanism.

On all of the previous outlets the LED was small and very discreet. I think, for reasons of making it more visible, the newest one has a VERY bright green LED. Frankly, not a fan, but that's personal and I did not lower the rating due to this. But you may want to be aware if you are using these some place like a kitchen where it will be rather obvious.

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N.B.

Works well so far. Pay attention to Line/Load wires

Reviewed in the United States on December 27, 2021

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If you're replacing an existing one, be aware that the position of the wires on the old GFCI may not be the same as the position on the new GFCI. Look on the old GFCI and check which ones are LOAD and LINE (look for the labels on the GFCI plastic back). Replace old LOADs to new LOADs and old LINEs to new LINEs. Don't just go by TOP to TOP and BOTTOM to BOTTOM.

If you're in the situation where after you install the wires, and supply power, you get the green light but no power to the outlet, and you're unable to reset (the TEST button is hard and cannot be pushed), then you swapped the LOAD wires with the LINE wires. Go back and swap them.

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Walt fan

Make sure your line and load wiring is correct if replacing an old GFCU plug

Reviewed in the United States on April 6, 2022

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I installed this new GFCI plug due to a color change in a kitchen. I was replacing a working Leviton GFCI plug and thought I had duplicated the wiring on the old plug during installation. When the plug didn't work even with the green LED light showing power, I took everything back out and realized (after researching a troubleshooting forum on the internet) that the line and load markings on the new Leviton plug were manufactured and marked opposite of the old plug.....switched the line and load wires and it worked like a charm. Dumb mistake on my part, but it is apparently pretty common with Leviton switching where the line and load wires are attached.

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