GFCI ground wiring?

Question

I am wiring a GFCI receptacle with two regular receptacles after it.

So before the GFCI I have my 12/2 wire from where it will hook into the box (the line side), after it I have my wire going to the two other receptacles (the load side).

Well the GFCI receptacle has s***w terminals for the line HOT and WHITE wires as well as a GROUND. On the bottom it has s***w terminals for the load side but ONLY the HOT and WHITE, no ground s***w.

Does this mean that I don't hook up the ground for the load wire or does it mean I have to pigtail the ground to the same s***w the line ground is using?

I didn't want to assume that I connect the line and load grounds out of fear I was circumventing the GFCI.

Answer 1

Yes, You have to splice the grounds together and then

pigtail to the gfci. Hope this helps

Answer 2

Maybe you got a bad GFI Recepticle!!! all the ones I ever worked with have a place for the ground wire!!!

Take another look at it!!! maybe someone didnt put the green s***w in??? Bring it back to the store and get another one!!!

Answer 3

i have an older home with metal boxes, so i attach the line ground to the ground s***w in the box approximately in the middle of that wire. then i use the remainder of the wire as a pigtail and attach all of the remaining ground wires to the "tail" of that wire, plus a pig tail lead to the gfci outlet's ground terminal. if you have plastic boxes, you would skip the grounding of the box, and just join them all together, plus the lead for the outlets ground s***w. you may find a picture of this in the instructions that came with the outlet, although they usually are kind of small and hard to read. good luck, hope this helped.

Answer 4

The grounds all are attached to the same ground s***w, twist all of the ground wires together and bring one wire to the s***w. There are ground wire nuts, green with a hole in the end, put one of the ground wires through the hole and then twist all of the others under the nut.