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Re: circuit breaker and gif problem



Original poster: "Hydrogen18" <hydrogen18-at-hydrogen18-dot-com> 

by having a test/reset button its a GFCI right? Anyhow I've noticed those
things will trip out before 20 amps for some reason. Try bypassing it
temporarily and see what happens.

---Eric
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Sent: Sunday, April 25, 2004 4:58 PM
Subject: circuit breaker and gif problem


 > Original poster: "Robert Hanford" <pomnept-at-comcast-dot-net>
 >
 > Hello all,
 > To be brief, my coil is constantly either tripping its 20 amp circuit
 > breaker or the test/reset button on the outlet. This is only in the 30%
 > power tuning stage. It uses two 15/60 NSTs  with a 160uf power factor
 > correction cap. I can't get it to run long enough to tune it properly.
 > If anybody has any ideas about this, I would really appreciate help. Prior
 > to upping the 15A ciruit breaker to 20A, and installing a GIF outlet, this
 > didn't seem as much of a problem.
 > Robert Hanford
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