I inadvertently wired my garage door opener into a GFI breaker. Every so
often when running at full legal limit it would trip. It didn't happen a
lot; perhaps once a month or so. I took the door opener off that circuit
and it hasn't happened since.
Tom, NI1N
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary "Joe" Mayfield" <gary_mayfield@hotmail.com>
To: <towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, August 15, 2005 9:38 PM
Subject: [TowerTalk] GFI Outlets
>I finally got something up in the air, not much just a 20' high dipole on
>40
> meters. It loads up fine, and I can hear a suprizing amount of stuff on
> the
> band, but when fed with 100 Watts it trips about a third of the GFI
> outlets
> in the house. The ones closest to and furthest from the antenna tripped
> and
> the ones in the middle did not (all seperate circuits). I assume it is
> the
> wire length that is getting me. The GFIs were made by Levitron and Pass &
> Seymour. The Pass & Seymour "premium" GFI was installed in 2004, and the
> house was built in 2000.
>
> I would be willing to pay a "premium" price for GFIs with a little
> filtering
> built in. Does such a thing exsist? A quick check on the internet
> reveals
> many folks with this problem and few solutions. What have other folks
> done?
>
> Thanks for the Help and 73,
> Joe
> kk0sd
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