[NSRCA-discussion] Iota 55 amp fuse replacement & surge protector

[Bob Richards]

I don't have an Iota supply, so I can't comment on those. However, the typical breakers in a house should not trip from the inrush current. They are thermal breakers, and would have to be overcurrent for some period of time (several cycles minimum) before they trip from overcurrent - even if it is a short circuit. Heat is what makes them trip.  (Some industrial breakers will have a thermal as well as magnetic trip, but I don't think you will find those in residential applications).  However, there is a possibility that a ground fault circuit breaker may be tripping from what is senses as a ground fault. The typical garage circuits are required to be ground fault now. Just out of curiosity, are the circuits that are tripping actually ground fault protected?
 
Bob R.


--- On Mon, 6/1/09, dkrev at shaw.ca <dkrev at shaw.ca> wrote:


From: dkrev at shaw.ca <dkrev at shaw.ca>
Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Iota 55 amp fuse replacement & surge protector
To: "General pattern discussion" <nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org>
Date: Monday, June 1, 2009, 6:35 PM



My Iota 55 will sometimes kick the 15 amp circuit in my garage.  I believe this is due to the inrush current being quite high. It only happens once in about ten plug ins??

I reset the breaker and it  works fine. I also run it through a surge protector that never seems to kick off. 

Dave

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From: Richard Strickland <pamrich47 at hotmail.com>

Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2009 14:58:29 
To: General pattern discussion<nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org>
Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Iota 55 amp fuse replacement & surge protector


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