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Called a repair guy out to find out why my GFI kept tripping on my fridge. He said it was the defrost timer and he didn't have the part but had one at the shop and would come back the next day. Well I looked online and called a local shop and the price was $110 cheaper than what the repair guy wanted so I picked it up today and installed it. Well it is still tripping the gfi. What I have noticed is when the timer contacts activate the compressor and fan it runs just fine without tripping the breaker, it is only tripping the gfi breaker when the timer shuts off the compressor. I am heading out tomorrow morning for the weekend, moving my son into his college dorm, so I am desperate to get this thing working either tonight or tomorrow morning. Any ideas on what is causing my problem?
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Refrigerators are not supposed to be hooked up to GFCI circuits the motor draw is too high and they will trip the GFCI...........A GFCI trips at 5 milliamps of fluctuation.........Your fridge needs to be on a regular 15 or 20 amp breaker without a GFCI.
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It has been plugged into the same plug for 6 yrs so I don't it is that. I actually plugged it into another gfi that wasn't on the same circuit and it tripped it as well.
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Well i'm a journeyman electrician before i got into appliances fridges don't belong on a GFCI circuits. You either have a short in your fridge somewhere or you have something sharing that circuit that's causing too much of an amp draw blowing the breaker. Check your complete wire harness in your fridge for shorts or track down the wiring in your walls or panel or find the other appliance or item your sharing this circuit with an unplug it and find another circuit to use. Good luck
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Finding the current leak will probably be a pain.
[COLOR="Blue"] it is only tripping the gfi breaker when the timer shuts off the compressor[/COLOR]
If you mean when the unit starts a defrost cycle then a probable place would be in the freezer.
Could be that there is moisture creating a circuit path from a connector to the frame of the unit. |
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