[BVARC] Eaton AFCI breaker issue

Chris Medlin ctmedlin at outlook.com
Thu Aug 22 19:22:17 CDT 2024


Theres a lot of talk on ARRL about the Eaton breakers. Darren W5AKC in Katy has done this fix and resolved his problem. He may be a good resource to follow up with.

<https://www.arrl.org/news/arrl-helps-manufacturer-to-resolve-arc-fault-circuit-interrupter-rfi-problems>
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On Aug 22, 2024, at 16:57, Andre Pollard via BVARC <bvarc at bvarc.org> wrote:



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<mailto:bvarc at bvarc.org>> wrote:
I had the same issue in 2021, I emailed this address trc at eaton.com<mailto: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<mailto:bvarc at bvarc.org>> wrote:
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> 
> 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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