kimosabe
New User
- Location
- san francisco
- Occupation
- construction manager
New Dryer booster fan trips AFCI every time dryer goes on, when swapped with normal breaker, it works fine. We needed to install a dryer booster fan inline with the 4" dryer exhaust duct due to the duct to roof being longer than 25ft with elbows. It's a gas dryer with 120v plug to spin the drum. Anything in the laundry room area needs AFCI here. This Laundry area is open and in corner of garage space.
New Dedicated line comes from main panel across garage ceiling, to a box housing an outlet and the booster current sensor. Booster has a plug which plugs into outlet and in same 4x4 box wrapped neutral line around the sensor hole 2 times. Then the same line continues to dryer outlet which has a GFCI plug. It trips breaker everytime the dryer is turned on, but a normal breaker works fine. This is dedicated 20amp and only powers booster and gas dryer. All wires, outlets and booster are new work. Booster fan sensor detects when dryer is on and runs automatically whenever the dryer runs.
Questions: would swapping line that wraps through the booster current sensor from a neutral to the hot line fix the AFCI trip problem? Anyone know what is going on here and how this can be resolved? For now it only works with normal breaker.
New Dedicated line comes from main panel across garage ceiling, to a box housing an outlet and the booster current sensor. Booster has a plug which plugs into outlet and in same 4x4 box wrapped neutral line around the sensor hole 2 times. Then the same line continues to dryer outlet which has a GFCI plug. It trips breaker everytime the dryer is turned on, but a normal breaker works fine. This is dedicated 20amp and only powers booster and gas dryer. All wires, outlets and booster are new work. Booster fan sensor detects when dryer is on and runs automatically whenever the dryer runs.
Questions: would swapping line that wraps through the booster current sensor from a neutral to the hot line fix the AFCI trip problem? Anyone know what is going on here and how this can be resolved? For now it only works with normal breaker.
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