Joe,
I would slip a ferrite bead on each insulated wire (black, white) and the
problem would go away. I forget the size and mix designation (about 1/2 inch
long, just big enough hole for wire, HF mix 77? 73?). The beads were part of
the "RFI Kit" I had gotten from Palomar. I wrote on the bags which ones for
GFCI and can look up what I used it you need. It was my last house, and now I
have not operated much and have a steel shingle roof so have not had any
problems yet here.
Dan KI6X
-----Original Message-----
From: "Gary \"Joe\" Mayfield" <gary_mayfield@hotmail.com>
Sent: Aug 17, 2005 3:37 AM
To: rfi@contesting.com
Subject: [RFI] 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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