[BVARC] Eaton AFCI breaker issue

Gary Sitton gasitton at comcast.net
Fri Aug 23 08:24:31 CDT 2024


Guys , I had a similar problem a few years ago when I went QRO. I finally 
put some ferrite collars over the wire pairs going to the sensitive 
breakers. This stopped the false breaker tripping and all was well. I had 
room in my breaker box to do the mods.
Gary K5AMH



On August 22, 2024 7:32:24 PM Chris Medlin via BVARC <bvarc at bvarc.org> wrote:
> 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.
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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.
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>> 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.
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>> Best,
>> Sal
>> AI5FL
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>>> On Aug 22, 2024, at 15:45, Bill L via BVARC <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.
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>>> 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.
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>>> Thanks!
>>> Bill
>>> KB1IFR
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