Hi Darrell, Had similar problem when installing a station in Rehoboth Beach, DE, a few years ago. Client had an addition built for the ham shack and breaker box used the arc-fault breakers now required. We tried all kinds of toroid filtering in the shack but couldn't eliminate the problem. We did some research and a QST article mentioned the manufacturer had special arc-fault breakers that were more RFI proof. Client had his electrician come in but rather than replace with those he reverted to older non-arc-fault breakers and that cured the RFI problem.
73/Jon Jon P. Zaimes, AA1KTower climber for hireFelton, Delawarehttp://www.aa1k.us/Cell: 302-632-2353 Reviews of AA1K tower work on eham website: http://www.eham.net/reviews/detail/12922 Hug your favorite tower every day, and always stay connected to it. -----Original Message----- From: AB2E Darrell <a...@hotmail.com> To: topband@contesting.com <topband@contesting.com> Sent: Thu, Dec 29, 2022 9:20 pm Subject: Topband: RFI tripping GFI breaker on 160m I trip a GFI breaker sometimes on 160m, usually in a contest 1500W. Never had a problem when GFI outlets were the norm, but I had some electrical work done in an added room and the new code calls for a GFI breaker. Has anyone had a similar experience and located an RFI resistant GFI breaker? 73 and HNY, Darrell AB2E _________________ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector _________________ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
