Sandia
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- Location
- Baltimore, Maryland
I had a service call about a pool cover motor that was protected by a GFCI receptacle on the load side that keeps tripping when the key switch is activated. The pool cover motor is 120 volt with a forward and reverse leeds and is in a residential in-ground aplication. I removed the wires at the motor and again when the key switch is activated, the GFCI trips out. I tested the key switch and the GFCI and found no problems. When I removed the GFCI from the circuit and tested the wires at the motor ( coming from the GFCI ) when the key switch was activated I had 120 volts between the phase conductor and the neutral conductor. When I tested the other phase conductor to the neutral conductor I was reading 47 - 52 volts. I removed the key switch and wire nutted just one phase conductor to the common wire and then tested the wires at the motor to see if the key switch was bleeding volt across the other phase conductor but again it still reads 47 - 52 volt on the phase conductor that is not being energized. I'm assumming that the integrity of the wires from the key switch to the motor has been comprimissed. Any feed back would be appriciated. Thank you.