[RFI] GFI/RF interference

[A. Sewell]

Bob,

I had just that happen a few weeks ago.  We kept hearing a noise in the 
kitchen that sounded like a rattling/buzzing noise that would last just 
a few seconds then stop.  My wife narrowed it down to a corner and 
noticed the GFI was tripped.  She reset it and a little while later we 
heard the noise again but we hadn't put the GFI tripping and the noise 
together.

I pulled up a chair and was going to figure out what it was making the 
noise when I noticed her cell phone on the counter was directly above 
the GFI, about 3 inches above it.  I moved the cell phone and we haven't 
heard the noise or had the GFI trip since.

That's my story and I'm sticking with it!

73,

Alan  N5NA

sebdesn wrote:

>I am on a building trades board and there is a chap who claims that a cell
>phone, sitting next to a GFI,  causes it to trip. Anyone ever heard of
>this???? Seems strange, since I, like probably most of us, have never
>tripped a GFI with rf.And we have a whole lot more than the 700mw. that a
>cell puts out floating around.(the rf burns from the old am days on 160 have
>healed...HIHI..)
>Bud  WØHG
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