[Boatanchors] Ground Fault Repair

[Gary Schafer]

If you have metal studs in the house one of the wires may have worn
through, got cut where it passes through the many studs, and you are
getting leakage. Very difficult to find. I have seen it happen.

73
Gary  K4FMX


Ken Woodside wrote:

> This may be a bit off topic, but please bear with me
> since it affects my ham shack. I recently found the
> 110 vac ground fault interrupter (GFCI) that serves my
> radio equipment tripped. I had not been on the air for
> several days. So, I disconnected EVERYTHING from the
> circuit and reset the GCFI and to my amazement it
> continued to trip! Must be a faulty GFCI...This is the
> type of installation where one GFCI controls and feeds
> and hopefully protects several outlets.
>
> So off to the store to purchase a new one, and this
> one, once installed also trips immediately upon
> resetting the unit. Strange.
>
> Next logical step I figured was to go to each known
> outlet on the circuit and remove the outlet so all
> that remained was the wall box and the wires. Also a
> good cleaning was in order, especially the outdoor
> outlets. This had to fix the problem...
>
> Wrong again! The new GCFI still trips. I can only
> assume at this point that I have a compromised outlet
> somewhere on the circuit of which I am not aware or
> Murphy's Law is operating at full tilt here in
> Michigan
> or both. Also I have not been drilling or nailing
> anything into walls recently.
>
> Any ideas out there as to what to check? Your
> indulgence will help me get my equipment back on the
> air.  Thank you. Ken Woodside WB8EQO
>
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