Will GFCI work with items without equipment ground
I know it's probably a dumb question but my wife's hair dryer is old and has no equipment ground. Wanted to be sure she is still protected if it should be dropped into water or otherwise shorted.
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Harvard wrote:
The under lying issue with "unexpected" GFCI tripping from an RV sub system is called "stray capacitance" which allows for stray current leakage. Every foot of wire has some stray capacitance and some loads have RFI capacitors across their AC input circuits. All this "Normal Capacitance" soon adds up to be a 5 mA current leakage.
Is there a solution? I actually tried using a portable battery charger to maintain house batteries but it has "smart" features that somehow won't reliably keep my house batteries charged. I attached at the point they feed the inverter with 12v. It gave me an error.
