teacherman
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Post by teacherman on Apr 3, 2016 18:59:31 GMT -8
Late last fall as I was tucking my trailer in for a long winters nap the electrical worked fine. Today as I was preparing to do a little spring work on her, I plugged in the same electrical cord I used last fall but the gcf outlet keeps tripping. I tried numerous attempts and one time the kitchen fan was actually running. I unplugged it and tried the lights but no luck. Gcf was tripped again. What's happening? How can I fix this?
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Post by danrhodes on Apr 3, 2016 19:10:48 GMT -8
Corroded ground seems most likely
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Post by bigbill on Apr 4, 2016 14:15:39 GMT -8
Or a mouse nest ccausing a ground fault.
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Post by teacherman on Apr 4, 2016 14:31:41 GMT -8
I tried a different outlet in the house and it worked fine.
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Post by chriss on Apr 9, 2016 7:16:50 GMT -8
Somewhere, you have a ground fault. The leakage is slight enough to trip the GFCI, but not high enough to overload the circuit breaker. This is a potentially dangerous situation that needs to be diagnosed. One quick diagnostic is to unplug the power supply and put an ohmmeter to the ground wire and neutral/ white wire and also ground to hot. You should have an infinite reading/no continuity.
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