This article was posted 07/16/2013 and is most likely outdated.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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I was sent to install a dedicated circuit in a bed room, for a woman with a serious skin condition. The Dr. had prescribed a tanning bed. The combination arc fault breaker would not hold, but the original type arc fault breaker would. This was done before the last code cycle, and the building was originally wired with the original style homeline arc fault breakers.
A lot of contractors and electricians have recently had complaints and issues with current AFCI breakers in equipment such as fans, dimmers, treadmills, etc. 