[TowerTalk] More 40 meter problems

[Roger (K8RI) on TT]

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?
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> John J. Nistico
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Roger (K8RI)


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