On 11/29/2013 1:15 PM, Tom Del Rosso wrote:
> Pearl F. Buck wrote:
>> On 11/27/2013 9:13 AM, pltrgyst wrote:
>>> On 11/26/2013 8:23 PM, jmcquown wrote:
>>>> This particular circuit controls (oddly) the overhead lights in
>>>> the master bathroom where the tub and toilet are AND all the
>>>> electrical outlets in the garage. Where the freezer is....
>>>
>>> The Virginia townhouse we just moved out of had this same odd
>>> arrangement -- the garage outlets were on the same circuit as the
>>> master bathroom, up on the third floor. When something kicked the
>>> garage refrigerator off, the first thing to do was to check the
>>> GFCI outlet in the upstairs bathroom.
>>>
>>> -- Larry
>>>
>> A frig should never be on a gfi circuit.
>
> He didn't say it was. He said it was on the same circuit [breaker] as a
> GFCI outlet.
>
>
That is functionally the same thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Residual-current_device

In the United States and Canada, a residual-current device is most
commonly known as a Ground Fault Circuit Interrupter (GFCI), Ground
Fault Interrupter (GFI) or an Appliance Leakage Current Interrupter
(ALCI). Ground Fault Condition is defined as: An unintentional,
electrically conducting connection between an ungrounded conductor of an
electrical circuit and the normally non-current-carrying conductors,
metallic enclosures, metallic raceways, metallic equipment or earth.