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Originally Posted by speede5
Just out of curiosity, do both receptacles work now? I'm a bit confused why it would trip the breaker, and I'm also wondering, when you were turning the breaker off were you flipping a ganged breaker or just a single, you should have had a ganged breaker, two breakers attached so they have to be turned off together, or a double breaker. the two sides of the sst should have been on seperate buses in the panel but if you were only flipping one breaker the other wire would have been live.
Older kitchens had to have split 15A receptacles above counter, the new code is 20A gfci and if you use 20A you no longer need to split.
afci (arc fault) is for bedrooms and is a special breaker in the panel. It is also newer code. They are problematic in that they detect an arc (that little spark you sometimes see when you plug/unplug an appliance). This could have been your problem as they trip really easy, they are supposed to prevent arc fires from starting in a bedroom.
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Yes, both work. Yes, ganged. Older (1979 house) kitchen.