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Faulty Ground Fault Failure

🕑 Added 2024-04-23 18:46:03 +0000 UTC

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Steve Jones

Dont mess with that. I had a house fire in 2014 because the insulation on the individual wires WITHIN the outer sheath of a romex wire in my unfinished basement had gotten dry with age (House was built in '72) and cracked, allowing arcs between the individual conductors. The house was almost a total loss, but the fire marshal was able to find the fault, and I even kept the piece of wire he found, with visible tiny little "welds" from the live wire it was arcing to. I think even a GFCI may not have saved me, but now we have "Arc fault" breakers which are now code, and supposedly detect this condition.

Aethalides

yes of course. I say that I struggle and am grateful that I can contribute even if it's only a dollar, and you come and flex OOH I CAN give 25 dollars oooh look at me. May I say that there is room for improvement in your choice of reply.

The-Erro1

Well, it is worth to join ElectroBOOM even with 25 dollars which i did.

The-Erro1

Well. I do have a faulty GFCI or as we call it FI. I didn't notice when i made my high voltage power supply finnish that the high voltage cable jacket was broken and arced to the metall housing. It was really dangerous because i saw arcs jumping from the housing to different places, like small purple arcs. The GFCI didn't pop

Aethalides

Can I say again Mehdi that I am glad that it is possible to join your Patreon at only $1 a month. Many creators set minimums like $4 and even though I think they are worth my support, I cannot in good faith give them $4 dollars a month!

Thomas Eriksen

Why only 5mA? European RCD/GFCI trips just before 30mA (and twice the voltage)

ElectroBOOM [Mehdi Sadaghdar]

Sorry I keep forgetting that when I schedule it to release, it goes private in the meantime! It will be live in 25 minutes from this comment!

Mark G

The video is set to private & I cannot watch it - Mehdi please help!

Patrick Kormann EVPaddy

Hi! Ever seen a Duspol (it’s a brand name but used for that class of device, at least in the German speaking world) ? They are very handy and also allow to check GFCI without risk :)