[TenTec] GFI Problems

[Tommy]

Heaven's!!! Maybe I'm doing SOMETHING right? I run 600 feet of 4" 
spaced open wire feedline out to my 80m dipole. The feeders come in 
through the eve's of the house, across about six feet in the attic, 
down through the ceiling, down about 4" away from the wall, and 
attaches to my Johnson KW Match box. I run an Omni 6 Plus, driving a 
Titan 3. Most of the time, rag chewing with about 600 w out, and 
DX'ng on all bands, except 160m and 30m, with 1400 watts out.

Located in the wall is the electrical feed to a GFI located in the 
bathroom, next to my operating desk. That GFI has never tripped yet!

Right below (about 5') the point where my feeders enter the eve's, 
is another GFI for my pool pump. This GFI trips when we have those 
infamous south Georgia thunderstorm and get a lightning hit within 5 
miles from here, but it too, has never been tripped by RF.

Think I'll leave well-enough, alone!

Tom - W4BQF

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Byron J. Watts" <bjw at byron.com>
To: <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2004 6:31 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] GFI Problems


> 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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