[Boatanchors] Advice please: Globe King trips GFI socket

[Grant Youngman]

On Jun 9, 2008, at 1:28 PM, Les Zwiebel WB6ORZ wrote:

>   Am restoring a 500C. The power supply trips the GFI. Filter caps  
> have been replaced. If the filtering circuit and caps have some  
> slight inherent leakage, should I bypass or eliminate them? Use a 3  
> wire to 2 wire adapter plug at the wall? (I would prefer to keep it  
> a 3-wire line.) Eliminate the GFI on that wall socket? Anyone been  
> down this road before?
>    Thanks in advance.
>    (((((73)))))
>    Les
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>
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Do you still have c55, c55 -- the line bypass caps in there?  Have you  
checked them?  If that isn't it, then perhaps one of your power  
transformers has high leakage from primary to ground (?).

I long ago installed a 3-wire line cord, removed c55/c56.  Have never  
had a problem.

Grant/NQ5T