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Posted: 4/3/2024 10:07:44 PM EDT
We put a refrigerator/freezer combo in our garage that’s been there’s about 9 months. We’ve never had an issue with it to date aside from this past week. The GFCI in the circuit that it’s attached to has been tripping the past few days and tripping more frequently. I have it unplugged now, but I’m wondering why all of a sudden this would be happening.
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You probably need to replace the breaker. That said I don't put refrigerators or freezers on a GFCI. Attached File
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Pathetic earthlings... who can save you now?
TX, USA
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It was NEVER intended to run a Refrigerator / Freezer off of that GFCI circuit.
In fact, there are warnings because usually the circuit will trip and your warning sign is the stink of your rotting food inside a not cold refridgerator or freezer. The high amperage at the Compressor Start Up is what usually trips it. You got lucky it ran this long. GFCI needs to go away IF you plant to run a refrigerator / freezer off that plug. |
Pathetic earthlings. Hurling your bodies out into the void, without the slightest inkling of who or what is out here. If you had known anything about the true nature of the universe, anything at all, you would've hidden from it in terror.
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Ideally, you run a 20a dedicated circuit for it, no GFI.
It could be a bad GFCI in your case, but some compressors just trip them randomly. |
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"The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him."
G. K. Chesterton |
Local idiots that make code mandate all kitchen outlets are GFCI, refrigerator manufacturers say no. One should default to what the manufacturer requires but inspectors often won't pass the electrical inspection unless a GFCI is installed. Install GFCI, get inspected, rip it out and install a traditional one with appropriate rated wiring.
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Liberals are a curious mix of communism and fascism, they want to destroy you but want to use your own money to do it.
I'm getting down to the last box, the other have all been destroyed... |
When I redid my kitchen, I just put the fridge and my little wine fridge on its own circuit, no GFI.
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I have no idea if it's the same issue but our treadmill used to trip the breaker and this stopped it.
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Fridges on regular breaker. I ran about 5 different ice makers on a GFCI and they all worked, right up until the last one. It popped a few month in.
Follow what you have heard here. ^^ |
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Preferred pronoun: MARINE
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I have a similar problem with my portable generator.
We lost power and I fired it up. The newest fridge in the kitchen kept kicking out the GFCI breaker on the generator. The old fridge that we keep in the garage doesn’t kick out the breaker. |
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Check the compressor motor to see if it's wet. If wet, it will trip the GFCI. You could have some humidity run off from the evaporators dripping on the motor. They do make refrigerators for garages (extreme temp spaces).
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Well, I was drunk the day my mom got out of prison....
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Nothing to do with amperage. Everything to do with the motor windings. Motors should not be on GFCI circuits.
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I will say that if the start run cap [if it has one] on the compressor is getting weak, it'll put additional strain on the GFCI but it still shouldn't be on one in the first place.
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Liberals are a curious mix of communism and fascism, they want to destroy you but want to use your own money to do it.
I'm getting down to the last box, the other have all been destroyed... |
Originally Posted By fxntime: Local idiots that make code mandate all kitchen outlets are GFCI, refrigerator manufacturers say no. One should default to what the manufacturer requires but inspectors is often won't pass the electrical inspection unless a GFCI is installed. Install GFCI, get inspected, rip it out and install a traditional one with appropriate rated wiring. View Quote This is the way. "Thanks, Mr. Inspector man! I sure do appreciate you following the retarded rule book that is ever-changing." When I wired up our barndo, I did a dedicated 20A circuit for the fridge with no GFCI. |
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Bigger than France. "The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant, it's just that they know so much that isn't so." --RWR, 1964 |
Same problem at our old house. Panel was on the outside of the garage wall though so easy fix. No spare breaker slots and I hate doubles so old gfci breaker came out, standard went in, and I ran an extension for the fridge, then doubled back and put a gfci outlet for the rest downstream. Worked great and when we sold the house, I just swapped the gfci breaker and standard outlet back in, hell, I left the new parts in the bottom of the breaker box.
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Friend of mine was selling his house. The buyer's inspector wanted a GFCI on the basement sewage ejector pump. I told him it was a bad idea. He talked to the realtor and realtor told him, "their inspector wants one, put it in". When it trips and the sewage overflows, it'll be their problem.
Plenty of people have already said it but I'll say it again............ no GFCI on refrigerator and freezer outlets. |
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"It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things."
Theodore Roosevelt |
Get it off the GFCI. GFCI was invented by a Darwin Hater as was AFCI.
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Not an electrician so my terminology may be off but my new build house had the fridge on the same circuit as a gfci. New fancy fridge wife had to have kept tripping it. Builder sent out their electrician who rewired the gfci. Gfci still functions as it should but no longer trips from the fridge, it bypasses it on the same circuit.
They moved some wires on the sides of the gfci, didn’t even turn the breaker off to do it. Maybe your gfci has failed which is why it’s happening now? |
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Interesting. I was just reading last night, that the new Dual Inverter portable air-conditioners cannot be run off a GFI.
This would be a similar principle. You can be sure there are multiple work arounds. Keep us posted on what works. |
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GD- "It's kind of like wading through through slimy lake bed with your feet to find clams below the surface".
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Pull your fridge outside and blow out the coils and compressor with an air compressor.
Also get it off of a GFCI. Always run your fridge on a dedicated circuit with nothing else on the circuit. |
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