RE: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Mill Motor trips GFI outlet

Because GFCI is intended primarily to protect against short-circuits
within hand-held devices. It was never intended, and is not recommended,
for properly grounded appliances and equipment. If you feel more
comfortable putting everything on GFCI sockets or breakers, go for it.
It's just not necessary, and is prone to cause spurious faults just as
Don has described.


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From: CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Roland Jollivet
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2012 9:09 AM
To: CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Mill Motor trips GFI outlet

I don't understand the sentiment to ditch the GFI...

I'm by no means a safety freak, buy hey, it's only a 1/4hp DC motor.
Think of the load of a fridge, or workshop compressor, and they don't
trip the GFI. And if they do, and as in this case, find the reason, and
fix that instead.

On 7 November 2012 18:31, jeremy youngs <jcyoungs76@...> wrote:

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> is it in a wet area? if not pitch the gfi it was never intended to run

> low impedance inductive loads. it was meant to keep the wife alive
> when she drops the hair dryer in the privvy. i tried once to do the
> same thing you are doing and the 25 bucks times 2 in a month led me to

> replace the gfi with a standard 15 amp outlet no problems in 8 yrs
> since jeremy youngs
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