[BVARC] Eaton AFCI breaker issue

Bill L bill.lyons3rd at gmail.com
Fri Aug 23 14:33:11 CDT 2024


Thanks to everyone for the help. To follow up ... Eaton is still replacing
the faulty breakers for free. Thanks for the email - they replied in less
than 24hrs. Also, I've 'ferrited' everything on the radio end but hadn't
tried at the breaker box. Thanks for that idea - I'm going to try that as a
short term solution.

New to the BVARC crowd so really appreciate the help even though I'm a '1'
;-)

Bill

On Fri, Aug 23, 2024, 08:25 Gary Sitton via BVARC <bvarc at bvarc.org> wrote:

> 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.
>>
>> [image: ARRL_logo_with_title.jpg]
>>
>> ARRL Helps Manufacturer to Resolve Arc Fault Circuit Interrupter RFI
>> Problems
>> <https://www.arrl.org/news/arrl-helps-manufacturer-to-resolve-arc-fault-circuit-interrupter-rfi-problems>
>> arrl.org
>> <https://www.arrl.org/news/arrl-helps-manufacturer-to-resolve-arc-fault-circuit-interrupter-rfi-problems>
>>
>> <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>
>> 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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