You seem to have misread, Mike. The offending breakers ARE Eaton.
73 de Mac, K2GKK/5
(Since 30 Nov '53)
Oklahoma City, OK
USAF Retired 61-81
FAA Retired 94-10
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From: RFI <rfi-bounces@contesting.com> on behalf of Mike Kirkland
<radio.ns6q@gmail.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2018 11:04
Cc: Rfi List
Subject: Re: [RFI] AFCI and RFI
Seems like the easy solution is to change the offending breaker(s) to Eaton.
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Mike
NS6Q
On Sun, Mar 11, 2018 at 8:55 AM, David Eckhardt <davearea51a@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Our home was built 4 years ago. We have the same problem. Also, one of
> the switches in the master suite evidently arcs a bit as that also trips
> the d$%^& breaker as you describe. RF also gets to it. Gott'a just love
> this digital age ! !
>
> Dave - WØLEV
>
> On Sun, Mar 11, 2018 at 2:06 PM, Kenneth G. Gordon <
> kgordon2006@frontier.com
> > wrote:
>
> > Local codes require those new AFCI (Arc Fault Circuit Interrupter)
> > breakers in any circuit feeding a bedroom here.
> >
> > We have two such circuits feeding our bedroom and an adjacent office in a
> > recent addition to our home.
> >
> > Whenever I am on 40 meters, either one or both AFCIs will trip off. This
> > is highly annoying to my wife, and I don't like it much either.
> >
> > I have contacted the maker of the breakers, Square D, and they tell me,
> > after some rudimentary tests, that there is nothing wrong with their
> > breakers.
> >
> > So, I am left with trying to filter the RF off the lines to the breakers.
> >
> > I had thought of connecting an X-2 type 0.01 uFd capacitor across the
> line
> > and neutral wires going into the breaker, and a pair of Y-2 0.01 uFd
> types
> > from both line and neutral to ground.
> >
> > However, I am somewhat reluctant to try this as I suspect that the
> leakage
> > across those caps will trip the AFCI off.
> >
> > Tonight I thought that perhaps some ferrite filters, either a series of
> > snap-on types, or some toroid types, on each wire which connects to the
> > breaker would filter enough of the RF to prevent the breakers from
> > tripping off.
> >
> > Has anyone here run into this sort of problem and if so, how did you
> > eliminate that?
> >
> > BTW, I am a qualified electrician, and wired our entire addition and the
> > sub-panel which contains these breakers. The local Electrical Inspector
> > gave me an "A" grade for my work.
> >
> > Additional information: I am running close to a kW output to a vertical
> > antenna which is about 25 feet from the breaker-panel. The vertical has a
> > good ground-system, 32 radials, and I don't get this sort of problem from
> > any band but 40 meters. My favorite mode is CW, although I also operate
> > some digital modes, but at lower power, like 50 watts. I seldom operate
> > voice. The digital signals never trip the AFCIs.
> >
> > Ken W7EKB
> >
> >
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