Mike Holt - Help Us Help You with AFCI issues

This article was posted 07/16/2013 and is most likely outdated.

Help us Help You with AFCI Issues

Help us Help You with AFCI Issues

gfci breaker A lot of contractors and electricians have recently had complaints and issues with current AFCI breakers in equipment such as fans, dimmers, treadmills, etc.

If there is a definitive list of known problems, we’d like to make it available to you.

Please give us feedback from your experience, by posting your comment at the end of this newsletter on any problems that you have encountered. Be as specific as you can regarding:

what appliances
under what conditions

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I had to replace an AFCI for a bedroom in my house built in 2004. The AFCI would trip every time I turned the ceiling fan on and then off quickly. There were two switches on the wall by the door, and upon entering the room, I would occasionally flip the wrong switch, so in stead of the light coming on, the ceiling fan was start. So i would immediately turn the fan off again. This would cause the AFCI to trip. I replaced the AFCI with another one of the same style (Siemens) and the problem disappeared. I also had another one that would often trip when the vacuum cleaner was turned on.

Martin Davis July 17 2013, 9:09 am EDT

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