Required by code? OK. Good idea? Certainly, but a serious safety
issue? Hardly. We ran many decades with out them with no serious
issues. Yes a few people made mistakes and paid the price. The GFI is
more a belt and suspenders thing. My first home, the house I built, My
wife's previous home, and this one did not, and does not have GFIs. My
shop has a GFI on the first outlet on each circuit, which covers the
entire branch from there on. I think they now require the breaker to be
a GF detector. If I add circuits, the code requires them.
73
Roger (K8RI)
On 10/26/2015 8:31 AM, john nistico wrote:
I do not have a tower at the moment. I have a hustler 5 btv that was on my roof
but now it is ground mounted. For some reason when I get on 40 it trips one of
my arc fault breakers. I replaced the troubled breaker with the same results. I
am a master electrician and saw this with one of my GFI outlets but when I
changed it the problem stopped. This has not and I do not want to put a regular
breaker in its place as it would not be safe. Any Ideas?
NY6DX
John J. Nistico
911 Electric Inc.
516.325-8993
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