I’m back and I have another stumper once again so I’d greatly appreciate any feedback. I wired up a covered pergola a couple weeks ago. 4 ceiling fans and 1 Receptacle. The whole circuit is fed from a subpanel and instead of making the receptacle GFI protected I protected the breaker. I did this because the receptacle is up high in the ceiling so if it ever trips they don’t have to get on a ladder to reset the GFI. The problem is the breaker is randomly tripping, it holds when I’m there troubleshooting but it seems to be tripping either late at night or early morning. This is not a dual function breaker it’s a SD homeline GFI breaker.
The customer didn’t want the fans switched so basically I hit my receptacle first and then out of that to the fans constant power. And they’re controlled by remotes. The customer bought pull chain fans thinking they came with remotes so instead of returning the fans she bought universal receivers and remotes.
I was by there recently and opened up every box and took down every fan I didn’t see any damaged wires or any wires touching. I ran 12/2 UF in the ground and everywhere else, all PVC and Arlington outdoor fan boxes. Everything is properly weather protected and up to code.
I wonder if this GFI breaker is bad? Or maybe I need to throw in a regular breaker and GFI at the receptacle.
The customer didn’t want the fans switched so basically I hit my receptacle first and then out of that to the fans constant power. And they’re controlled by remotes. The customer bought pull chain fans thinking they came with remotes so instead of returning the fans she bought universal receivers and remotes.
I was by there recently and opened up every box and took down every fan I didn’t see any damaged wires or any wires touching. I ran 12/2 UF in the ground and everywhere else, all PVC and Arlington outdoor fan boxes. Everything is properly weather protected and up to code.
I wonder if this GFI breaker is bad? Or maybe I need to throw in a regular breaker and GFI at the receptacle.
