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I have a hot water bath in a lab that incubates bacteria samples. It is pretty important that the bath stays on and maintains a certain temperature.
The equipment has metal housing, a stainless steel water tub, and the lab has hard counter tops and impervious floors and people stick their hands in the water to pull out samples. Everything is pointing to GFCI requirement. When the circuit is powered from a GFCI, the equipment trips in a few hours. I checked the circuit and everything is fine. I called the equipment manufacturer and they said that their equipment should not be plugged into GFCI protected outlets.
Does anyone have any ideas?
The equipment has metal housing, a stainless steel water tub, and the lab has hard counter tops and impervious floors and people stick their hands in the water to pull out samples. Everything is pointing to GFCI requirement. When the circuit is powered from a GFCI, the equipment trips in a few hours. I checked the circuit and everything is fine. I called the equipment manufacturer and they said that their equipment should not be plugged into GFCI protected outlets.
Does anyone have any ideas?