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Old 05-03-2009, 11:36 AM   #1
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converter kicking breaker

I put a new60 convertor in and when I put both batteries on it it popped my ground fault breaker.The batteries were allmost flat so the load was pretty high.I disconnected one battery and it worked fine on one. I pulled the other one and put it on a regular charger and then I will put it back in and try again. Has any one else had this problem?
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Converters and GFI's have been an issue for several members here on the forums. The solution has been to not use GFI on the converter's circuit.
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GFI circuits are just so darn hard to deal with I wonder how we got along so long without them and never got zapped but somebody did so whatever, we are saving lives and that is good. I get it friends but they are just a pain and you can ask any EE but I understand a leak to ground is what it is so you just have to go through it and find it or change it.
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I understand a leak to ground is what it is.
And a positive wire to a grounded battery is just that, at least in its simplest terms.
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breaker tripping

Thanks guy's. I found out a couple of things .The first is when yoyr batteries are real low the breaker tripping is allmost a given . Between the added load on the convertor and the nature of gfi's .I was trying to charge 2 allmost flat batteries . When I took 1 out of the trailor and put it on a regular charger the convertor did not trip the breaker on 1 battery then I put the charged battery back in and every thing worked fine. A friend of mine told me he put a cut-off switch in tha has bat#1 or bat#2 or both and off that way if you discharge both pretty low you can lessen the load by charging 1 at a time.He also suggested taking out the gfi.
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