Storage RV lot with GFIC breakers
I have had my rv's stored in this lot for 17 years with an electrical hookup. The last 10 have been a 40ft. Tiffin Pheaton. Ever since the Phaeton has been here we have had problems keeping the 120 vo...
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BarabooBob wrote:
We recently remodeled our kitchen in our sticks and bricks house. The guy that did the wiring put a GFCI outlet behind the refrigerator. Our new refrigerator arrived and was plugged into that outlet. The next morning, the GFCI had tripped. We reset it and the following day it tripped again.
I contacted Samsung about this and they said that they would set up a service call to check out the fridge.
I called our electrician about another matter and happened to mention the refrigerator issue. He asked if his wiring guy put in a GFCI for that outlet, I responded that he did. The electrician said that modern inverter refrigerators do not like to play well with GFCI's. He said that this is a known problem and that the latest National Electrical Code has a footnote included that indicates that GFCI's SHOULD NOT be installed for refrigerators.
I contacted Samsung about this and ended up talking to one of their engineers that agreed with our electrician.
codes even when GFCI started being required exempted fridge and freezers from GFCI protection. Common practice is to put fridge/freezer on first outlet in circuit and GFCI outlet on next downstream outlet. That's what we did on our kitchen and garage for Fridge and freezer.
