[BVARC] Eaton AFCI breaker issue
Andre Pollard
apollard310 at gmail.com
Thu Aug 22 16:59:08 CDT 2024
Unfortunately I had the same issue and with two different HF rigs. One
didn't have a tuner, so likely the common mode is just increased
temporarily during tuning. They would trip on 20 and 40 meters anytime I
transmitted over 50 watts. I changed two of our gfcis to fix the problem.
On Thu, Aug 22, 2024, 3:57 PM Salvador Garza via BVARC <bvarc at bvarc.org>
wrote:
> I had the same issue in 2021, I emailed this address trc at eaton.com and
> got free replacements.
>
> Best,
> Sal
> AI5FL
>
> > On Aug 22, 2024, at 15:45, Bill L via BVARC <bvarc at bvarc.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Has anyone experienced the issue with HF RFI tripping their Eaton
> residential circuit breakers and, if so, how did you solve it? Looks like
> this was first recognized by ARRL in 2013 or so and folks were still seeing
> the problem at least until 2019.
> >
> > I've just started into HF and my G90 auto tuner is creating havoc. I'll
> buy replacements if that'll work but don't want to spend cash only to find
> out Eaton never fixed it.
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Bill
> > KB1IFR
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