GFI Faults and interior light replacemts

[John]

The power source (my shop) has GFI so that is what is tripping.

Will look into the suggestions

thx

John

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Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2009 08:45

Subject: [WanderlodgeForum] Re: GFI Faults and interior light replacemts

Chuck, is that a fault on a gfi to the bus? or in the bus? I dont
have any gfi's on my 30 or 50 amp pedistals. are they a good idea?
and what happens when the appliance is 240v would that trip a gfi?

GregoryO'Connor ofTim&Greg
94ptCa

.--- In "WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com", "Chuck Wheeler"
.> wrote:
>
> I had to problem areas that caused our BB to trip a GFI. One was
the AC
> indicator panel, easily fixed by changing some resistor values,
and the
> second was two of the electric heaters. one had a drooping element
touching
> the case and the other had the common and neutral ties together.
It is not
> real easy to trace ground faults. I had to disconnect ALL the
leads( hot,
> common, neutral) for each feed from the breakers and then
reconnect them one
> at a time to see which tripped the GFI. Worked at it on and off
for a whole
> weekend but now no more tripping GFI.
>
> I replaced ALL the ballasts in our BB with the new ballasts fro
Stephen
> Birtles. They now turn on reliably and we have plenty of light.
I used
> double sided tape and just stuck the new ballasts to the back of
the
> fixture. It took about a half a day to replace all ballasts.
>
> - Chuck Wheeler-
> 1982 FC 31SB Fort Worth TX
>
>
> _____
>
> From: "WanderlodgeForum%40yahoogroups.com"
> [mailto:"WanderlodgeForum%40yahoogroups.com"] On Behalf Of jcpryn
> Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2009 10:46 PM
> To: "WanderlodgeForum%40yahoogroups.com"
> Subject: [WanderlodgeForum] GFI Faults and interior light
replacemts
>
>
>
> 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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