This article was posted 07/16/2013 and is most likely outdated.
Mike Holt - Help Us Help You with AFCI issues
Help us Help You with AFCI Issues
Help us Help You with AFCI Issues
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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Vacuum cleaners with the speed controlled beater brushes in the head, these always seem to trip it when adjusting around low speed.
**While you are at it please find out why (at least 90's and early 2000's Ford 7.3)diesel truck block heaters trip GFCI's. I have never been able to get this question answered, even by the companies that make them.Per code the outlet being outside is required to be GFCI but it will not hold overnight when it should/needs be connected.
A lot of contractors and electricians have recently had complaints and issues with current AFCI breakers in equipment such as fans, dimmers, treadmills, etc. 