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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Retired JSO wrote:
I have an additional refrigerator in our stick and brick garage. All outlets in the garage have a GFCI duplex plug. I had to change out that outlet to a standard dedicated outlet to keep it from tripping.
Agreed, when we first moved to a "modern" house from a 40 year old house we had the same issue with the auxiliary fridge in the garage. Changed out the outlet to non GFCI, no further issues.
It was the first thing that popped up on the web for trouble shooting this issue. It seems that something in frig circuitry is the culprit. This has happened on 3 reefers but no other appliances or outlets.
I also noticed a year later when we replaced the kitchen fridge that that GFCI outlet had also been swapped out.
The outlet in this instance does not belong to the storage customers and is likely code if the facility is fairly new. Don't mess with it.
