- 1. [Shop-talk] Treadmill tripping gfci (score: 1)
- Author: "cornerexit" <cornerexit@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 15:43:36 -0800
- I have a treadmill in my shop and have been experiencing difficulties with it tripping the gfci, or tripping the little internal breaker on the treadmill itself. Usually happens at about the 20 minu
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- 2. Re: [Shop-talk] Treadmill tripping gfci (score: 1)
- Author: Jim Franklin <jamesf@groupwbench.org>
- Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 20:29:30 -0500
- Are you sure it's a gfci and not afci? Treadmills are known to trip the arc-fault devices now mandatory in bedroom circuits. jim _______________________________________________ Support Team.Net http:
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- 3. Re: [Shop-talk] Treadmill tripping gfci (score: 1)
- Author: Jimmie Mayfield <mayfield+shoptalk@sackheads.org>
- Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 13:10:17 -0500
- The GFCI trips when it detects a current imbalance between hot and neutral. A large inductive load, like a big motor, can cause a GFCI to trip by mistake. If your treadmill's internal breaker wasn't
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- 4. Re: [Shop-talk] Treadmill tripping gfci (score: 1)
- Author: "Ron Schmittou" <rs1121@earthlink.net>
- Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 12:40:04 -0600
- GFI outlets just don't seem to work well on large devices - this really sucks since they are now mandatory for garages in all new construction, and that's where most people are going to be plugging i
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- 5. Re: [Shop-talk] Treadmill tripping gfci (score: 1)
- Author: "cornerexit" <cornerexit@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 13:00:26 -0800
- Well to be honest, now that I think about it, the internal breaker has only tripped once, the outlet tripping happens frequently. However, neither the internal breaker nor the outlet will trip when t
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