Fridge and GFCI trips
On Jul 12, 6:00*pm, Wayne Whitney wrote:
On 2008-07-12, BobK207 wrote:
small fan with two wire cord & all plastic construction *(including
housing & fan on/off, two speed switch) *mounted to a wooden window
frame.
Trips GFI about 50% of the time when switched quickly from high speed
to low speed and sometimes *when switching off.
Where is the leakage to ground? * Seems like something else is
happening.
oh, I tired the fan on four different GFI's ...trips on two of them
but never on the "other" two !?
Are the GFI's "bad" * (and which ones?) * or is the fan a problem?
Good example. *I guess the the fan shouldn't trip the the GFI--were
the two that tripped of recent vintage?
Cheers, Wayne
All four were recent installations.....within the last year.
All were identical models.
cheers
Bob
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