[TenTec] GFI Problems

[Byron J. Watts]

Yup, every time I light up on the Omni-D barefoot on 40m I smoke the GFI in
the back room.  That'd be on a coil loaded vertical.  GFI's don't like RF
much at all, even a fluorescent light popping on and off will snap them.

Hope we can find a solution, I tend to blow these alot

73 de KC0NPF
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Charles Greene" <w1cg at qsl.net>
To: <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2004 03:34
Subject: [TenTec] GFI Problems


> Hi,
>
> I hooked up my Swan Linear to my OMNI-VI and had some RF in the shack when
> using my Windom antenna which I cured by installing a couple of 1:1 baluns
> in the coax feed line, but I still have one problem I haven't solved
> yet.  When I transmit, the upstairs bathroom Ground Fault Isolator trips,
> probably on RF.  The antenna is about 15 ft from the GFI, so the wires
> going to the GFI may be picking up the RF directly from the antenna.  On
my
> vertical which is about 30 ft from the GFI, there are no RF problems.  Has
> anyone had this problem, and what did you do to eliminate it?   I must be
> somewhat common because I was talking to a local ham who had and still has
> the same problem.  I was thinking about installing some .001 ufd caps
> across the wires in the bathroom wall coming into the GFI receptacle.  I
> don't know if that would do the job or make it worse.
>
> TNX for the bandwidth
>
> Chas, W1CG
>
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