A/A Fuel GTX
Senior Member
- Location
- WI & AZ
- Occupation
- Electrician
This is one of those situations that really irritate me. I am trimming out a new house with eight Halo all slope cans installed. I energize the circuit and the CH AFCI breaker trips immediately. I begin tearing apart switch boxes to try and isolate the fault. After 6 hours of trudging up and down three flights of stairs between the panel and the problem, I discover that the lampholder on these cans is attached to the housing via a screw that essentially bonds the neutral to the can thus creating a short beween the grounded and grounding conductor and therefore causing the AFCI to trip instantly. I'd love to be able to backcharge the manufacturer for my wasted time in trying to troubleshoot a problem that they created. What are these engineers thinking?????? Rest assured I'll be calling my Cooper Rep in the morning.