Interesting story about Eaton Breakers. Around 2015ish they discovered their breakers were highly susceptible to RF signals. With ARRL’s help they redesigned the breakers and warrantied the old breakers. I know this from living in a house that had those breakers and receiving new ones from Eaton at no charge. Eaton is still warranting those breakers today. Link to the article. ARRL Helps Manufacturer to Resolve Arc Fault Circuit Interrupter RFI Problems.
73,
Duane, KO4WQL
From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Rich Erlichman
Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2023 2:49 PM
To: Joe Signorelli <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [TVARC] Arc Fault Breaker
You may be missing a not so obvious point.
After pressing the "TEST" function verifying that the breaker is working, you need to actually flip the breaker switch completely to the "OFF" position. Then, and ONLY then you will be able to turn it back "ON".
In other words, there is a middle state for the (AFCI) breaker switches.
I believe it works the same way for the more standard GFI type circuit breakers, BTW.
Any circuit breaker with a "TEST" switch.
73,
Rich, ND4G
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From "Ken B via TVARC" <[email protected]>
To "TVARC" <[email protected]>; "joe signorelli" <[email protected]>
Date 8/30/2023 3:45:16 PM
Subject Re: [TVARC] Arc Fault Breaker