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Lamps => Modern => Topic started by: A_lights on December 20, 2012, 05:23:24 PM

Title: led lights causing GCFI to open
Post by: A_lights on December 20, 2012, 05:23:24 PM

I hav this string of 60 blue led that trips the GCFI protection switch yet works fine on a normal circuit

Title: Re: led lights causing GCFI to open
Post by: Jace the Gull on December 30, 2012, 07:38:02 PM

does all the lights light up? any weird behaviors in any of the LEDs? For this, it means the return power isn't same as the power that went into the line, so there is an imbalance between the neutral and the line.

Title: Re: led lights causing GCFI to open
Post by: A_lights on December 30, 2012, 07:41:52 PM

Yes, this is only the second year they've been in use for Christmas

Title: Re: led lights causing GCFI to open
Post by: Medved on December 30, 2013, 04:44:41 AM

So I would expect some fault there, probably water leak.
So don't operate them, until you find the cause and fix it properly, even when they appear to work normally on non-GFCI circuit, the fault may cause either some nasty shock, or even a fire.