- Location
- Chapel Hill, NC
- Occupation
- Retired Electrical Contractor
We had a service call. Easy fix no problem. Here is the situation. Kitchen lights were on a gfci breaker because it apparently fed some outside receptacles, The lights were tracks with low voltage heads. Every time the switch was turn on it would trip the GFCI.
My guys removed the track heads and everything was fine. Install all the units one by one and everything worked except for one track head. They installed the last head without the bulb and the circuit held. They put the bulb in and the circuit tripped.
These are low voltage and I thought the gfci would not protect the secondary side of the trany. My guess is there is a short on the primary side that only shows up when there is a load. I have never witnessed this before.
My guys removed the track heads and everything was fine. Install all the units one by one and everything worked except for one track head. They installed the last head without the bulb and the circuit held. They put the bulb in and the circuit tripped.
These are low voltage and I thought the gfci would not protect the secondary side of the trany. My guess is there is a short on the primary side that only shows up when there is a load. I have never witnessed this before.