Dual wound trip solenoid

A two pole ground fault interrupter, comprising:

• an insulating housing formed with a plurality of partitions defining a plurality of compartments;
• two electrical conductors;
• a separate pair of separable main contacts interconnected with separate ones of said electrical conductors;
• two operating mechanisms, one operating mechanism associated with each of said two pairs of separable main contacts, one each of said two pairs of separable main contacts and said two operating mechanisms disposed in one each of said plurality of compartments;
• sensing means for detecting a ground fault including detection circuitry disposed on a printed circuit board and one or more toroids, said one or more toroids disposed in one of said plurality of compartments;
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• means for actuating said two operating mechanisms responsive to said sensing means, including a solenoid, said solenoid disposed in a compartment other than said compartments which include said two operating mechanisms but mechanically interconnected with said two operating mechanisms through said partitions;
• said solenoid having a movable magnetic member which is magnetically actuable in response to said ground fault and a pair of solenoid windings either of which when electrically energized will cause the magnetic actuation of said movable magnetic member, each of said solenoid windings being interconnected electrically at one side thereof with said sensing means, each of said solenoid windings being interconnected electrically at the other side thereof with a separate one of said electrical conductors, electrical energization of each said solenoid occurring when electrical energy flows between said sensing means and said electrical conductor to which said other side is electrically interconnected so that said magnetic member will be actuated when electrical energy flows between said sensing means and any of said interconnected electrical conductors for tripping both pairs of said separable main contacts.