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Re: [Shop-talk] Treadmill tripping gfci

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Subject: Re: [Shop-talk] Treadmill tripping gfci
From: Jim Franklin <jamesf@groupwbench.org>
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 20:29:30 -0500
On Jan 21, 2008, at 6:43 PM, cornerexit wrote:
>
>
> Are treadmills usually pretty hard on a circuit? I've tried  
> different gfci
> outlets and it still trips them. Should I pull the closest gfci  
> outlet to
> the panel and replace it with a non gfci 20 amp outlet and see if  
> still
> trips the breaker on the treadmill?
>

Are you sure it's a gfci and not afci? Treadmills are known to trip  
the arc-fault devices now mandatory in bedroom circuits.

jim
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