GFI Faults and interior light replacemts
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01-03-2009, 17:37
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GFI Faults and interior light replacemts
What? the shore power supply is gfi protected?? A GFI will trip when
the neutral wire and the hot wire current are not equal.current is amps? AC is an acronym for alternating current , not as simple but 20 amps at one hot legRed and 25 amps at the other hot legBlack must equal out with with 45amp showing in the neutral wire (as the amps alternate back and forth). if there is less than the 45a (20Red+25Black)in the neutral there is a path thru ground some place wher the amps are lost to .or, with two legs of hot like a 50 amp service It could be that the neutral wire is faulty and you are passing current between the two legs?????????? I can not figure how this happens but it does and you end up with overvoltage >120 , <240 on one leg. that will remove it from the neutral test math and trip it without showing up in the ground path. I put one 30 amp 240Vgfi circuit breaker to my pool pump house sub that was not required by code. I later decided to replace it with a hardwire typical breaker because I had fear that my intended upgrade was overlooking some of the electromechanics with pool light 'at appliance' gfi protection?????? I nolonger use a tennisball to test the pool light, Tim figured out what I was doing. Long story short sounds like a faulty neutral if that would trip one???? I dig holes for a living, this is my understanding with hope of confirmation or correction. GregoryO'Connor ofTim&Greg 94ptCa --- In WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com, "jcpryn" wrote: > > Hello, > > Helping a friend with his BB 84fc35' and out of the blue he started > getting immediate ground faults. We shut off all of the breakers and > still getting the fault. plugged the cord in by it's self and no > faults, but as soon as it's plugged into the BB the GFI trips. > > Any ideas? > > > On another subject I have several lights in the coach that either don't > work or are very weak. I know I can replace the ballast for each > one. What I don't know is that if that will fix all of them and if it > does will I be happy with the amount of light? Anybody replace the > stock ceiling lights with something more moderern? > > thanks > John > |
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