Open Ground question
Hi all, I have been having a problem with plugging into the shore power at our storage facility. They have all circuits run through GFCI outlets on the pole. When we plug in and we are not running any...
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road-runner wrote:
A motor that trips a correctly working GFCI has a real ground fault. I'm guessing the refrigerator exception is there because some fridges do have ground faults and there was tremendous public and political pressure for the exception. Personally, I've had 2 refrigerators and a freezer on GFCI circuits continuously for 9 years with zero trips. I run the RV including the heat pump, air compressors, and an irrigation pump with no GFCI trips. The only trips I have had are from making some mistake when making a temporary connection or with using test equipment (like forgetting that one side of the scope probe is earth grounded).
I had a small chest freezer trip the garage GFCI twice over a period of a couple of years. After the 2nd time, I rewired the plug away from the GCFI.
