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gfi for fridge
went to a service call about gfi tripping with fridge on it, when i get there the fridge is in a greenhouse behind the residence i tell the H.O. the the gfi has to stay. tested the gfi and its good. what would you do
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04-19-2012, 01:03 PM
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Install bubble cover and invoice.
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04-19-2012, 03:25 PM
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Install bubble cover and invoice.
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bubble cover allready there
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04-19-2012, 03:57 PM
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Invoice and ask for payment. 
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04-19-2012, 04:57 PM
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Originally Posted by ampman
went to a service call about gfi tripping with fridge on it, when i get there the fridge is in a greenhouse behind the residence i tell the H.O. the the gfi has to stay. tested the gfi and its good. what would you do
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I tell them the gfi is not the problem. It is most likely the refrigerator motor. If it's an older one it almost always is. Or it could be an wiring issue not present at this time. Change to gfi and note the above on the repair order.
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04-19-2012, 05:17 PM
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I had the same problem concerning a newly installed 20 amp ckt and GFCI in garage. Old 1950s/60s refrigerator two prong kept tripping it. I told HO to reverse the polarity on the units plug, have not heard back from him after to I assumed worked.
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If it's not an intermittent, I would've megged the fridge.
The other option is most Flukes will do very low series current measurements. You could build a splitter and that would allow you to easily put your Fluke in the EGC of the appliance. That would be conclusive proof.
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04-19-2012, 06:33 PM
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I tell them the gfi is not the problem. It is most likely the refrigerator motor. If it's an older one it almost always is. Or it could be an wiring issue not present at this time. Change to gfi and note the above on the repair order.
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One of my competitors puts this on all their garage receptacles to cut down on call backs.
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04-19-2012, 08:08 PM
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brand new fridge gfi trip above 3miliamps did not meg the fridge
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04-19-2012, 10:10 PM
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Quote:
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went to a service call about gfi tripping with fridge on it, when i get there the fridge is in a greenhouse behind the residence i tell the H.O. the the gfi has to stay. tested the gfi and its good. what would you do
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The same.
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04-19-2012, 10:25 PM
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A lady tried suing me because she lost a large chest freezer full of shrimp because of the GFI in the garage had tripped while they your out trolling. I had to supply her lawyer with the NEC code. A friend that lives two house down from me brought his four year old freezer to the street because it didn't work anymore. It was tripping the GFI in his shed is what he told me when I asked why he was throwing the freezer away. I ran him a dedicated curciut with a single plug from the panel behind the freezer I help carry back from the road. That was about five years ago and it still works great.
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04-19-2012, 10:54 PM
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One of my competitors puts this on all their garage receptacles to cut down on call backs.
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Tell your competitor to learn how to spell, or at least get spell check. Refri dgerator?
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04-19-2012, 11:03 PM
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Tell your competitor to learn how to spell, or at least get spell check. Refridgerator?
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Icebox is a whole lot easier to spell.
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04-20-2012, 02:35 PM
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Icebox is a whole lot easier to spell.
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If you had a real icebox, you wouldn't be concerned about a GFI trip.
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04-20-2012, 05:00 PM
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went to a service call about gfi tripping with fridge on it, when i get there the fridge is in a greenhouse behind the residence i tell the H.O. the the gfi has to stay. tested the gfi and its good. what would you do
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Install a dedicated outlet for the refrigerator on the same circuit ahead of the GFCI.
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04-20-2012, 06:07 PM
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Tell your competitor to learn how to spell, or at least get spell check. Refridgerator?
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That is funny, I didn't notice that til you pointed it out!
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04-20-2012, 06:11 PM
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A lady tried suing me because she lost a large chest freezer full of shrimp because of the GFI in the garage had tripped while they your out trolling. I had to supply her lawyer with the NEC code. A friend that lives two house down from me brought his four year old freezer to the street because it didn't work anymore. It was tripping the GFI in his shed is what he told me when I asked why he was throwing the freezer away. I ran him a dedicated curciut with a single plug from the panel behind the freezer I help carry back from the road. That was about five years ago and it still works great.
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Gross - I would want to sue just for the smell of that much ruined shrimp 
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04-20-2012, 06:42 PM
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Gross - I would want to sue just for the smell of that much ruined shrimp |
Shrimp juice is the choice of smell good down here. Put a little on and head down the bayou and be ready to kiss some girls.
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04-21-2012, 09:06 AM
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Install a dedicated outlet for the refrigerator on the same circuit ahead of the GFCI.
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Can you run a 10-2 to a frid rec. and not gfci it ?
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