Having trouble understanding GFCI problem
I have my MH in a storage lot with low capacity electrical hookup for battery charging. Three of us are hooked into one box. After the initial bulk charge for a few seconds mine drops off to below ...
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The problem is three battery chargers plugged into one GFIC. One charger is fine and two will still be OK but the third adds up to enough ground leakage that the GFIC trips. There is no way around this except adding a parallel GFIC receptacle to split up the chargers.
All switching power supplies(modernconverters, IE battery chargers) leak a small amount of current to ground. This is usually not enough to trip a GFIC but if you have several the additive effect will.
Sam
All switching power supplies(modernconverters, IE battery chargers) leak a small amount of current to ground. This is usually not enough to trip a GFIC but if you have several the additive effect will.
Sam
