[TVARC] AFCI Breaker Question

[mike regan]

Don,I live south of 466A in a 41/2 year old home.About a year and a half ago I found that when transmitted at 70 watts on my new ICOM 7300, I would blow my AFCI breakersI called the breaker manufacturer and they confirmed that my breakers were defective.They told me to have the original installer, which was Galaxy Home Solutions contact them, and that they would provide warranty replacement breakers.Galaxy did the swap at no charge.Everything then worked fine.There was no impact on any of my neighbors.I can't find any notes telling me who the original breakers were made by.The new breakers are as follows:Eaton Type BR AFCI breakers.
Cat. No. BRCAF120
Hope this helps.
Mike ReganKM4ZTE
 

   

 On Saturday, March 3, 2018 8:32 AM, doncrosby--- via TVARC <tvarc at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
 

 AFCI Breaker Question.... I am working with a local ham on an antenna install at a 4year old home he just moved into south of 466A. 
He is tripping AFCI’s in his home now that he has anoperating station in his new home. We are not there yet, but this could be the case we were worried about where a ham movesinto a “non ham neighborhood” and starts tripping AFCI's at neighbors who hadn’thad a need to swap out the original AFCI’s. Let's hope that isn't the case here. He will need to get his AFCI’s swapped out pronto and it's possible that some of his neighbors may as well. QUESTION: Do any of you know the Manufacturer,  Part Number or Type Designation of theversion of the AFCI that works (as I recall there were early swap-out versionsthat didn’t solve the problem). If you have the “good” version, would you share the partinfo with me? Also, do you know the warranty policy of the manufacturer, installer or the developer?
Please use "reply to sender" rather than "reply to all". Tnx, Don W1EJM ______________________________________________________________
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