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[jap]

Turned on the old ceiling fan in the bedroom tonight by the fan speed control and heard a chatter coming from the bathroom. The hair dryer with a gfi cord end was plugged in.

Every time I would turn the fan on the gfi on the hair dryer cord would chatter and trip.

2 different circuits, nothing common between them that I know of.
Changed out the ceiling fan and problem is gone.

Any ideas?


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[jap]

Circuits were on the same phase however.

Bathroom on 23. Bedroom lights on 24.


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[Little Bill]

The fan blowing caused the GFCI to get cold. It was it's teeth chattering!

Seriously have no clue unless the speed controller was sending something that the GFCI was picking up, like some sort of RF. But if you kept the same controller for the new fan it would have to have been from the fan I guess or a combination of the controller and old fan.

 

[JFletcher]

Turned on the old ceiling fan in the bedroom tonight by the fan speed control and heard a chatter coming from the bathroom. The hair dryer with a gfi cord end was plugged in.

Every time I would turn the fan on the gfi on the hair dryer cord would chatter and trip.

2 different circuits, nothing common between them that I know of.
Changed out the ceiling fan and problem is gone.

Any ideas?


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Post video next time! wag, inductive kick from the fan tripping a very sensitive GFCI cord on the dryer.

eta: neutrals of the two circuits possibly connected before the grounded bar in the panel?

 

[ptonsparky]

Turned on the old ceiling fan in the bedroom tonight by the fan speed control and heard a chatter coming from the bathroom. The hair dryer with a gfi cord end was plugged in.

Every time I would turn the fan on the gfi on the hair dryer cord would chatter and trip.

2 different circuits, nothing common between them that I know of.
Changed out the ceiling fan and problem is gone.

Any ideas?


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The ghost that used to dwell in my bath fan moved to yours.

 

[jap]

Far fetched I thought the motor in the ceiling fan was going bad, causing an excessive draw, lowering the voltage on that phase and causing the GFI to drop out on the hair dryer cord, or, some type of voltage coming back on the EGC that the GFI plug was noticing.

Still not sure.
No issues since I changed the fan out last night.

Electrical problems in an electricians house always seem to be more confusing than what we usually get called out for.


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[Jraef]

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Electrical problems in an electricians house always seem to be more confusing than what we usually get called out for.


JAP>

It's the Universe messing with us...

I have problems in my house that I can't fix too (and more that I can, but don't bother with). I had to install hard wired smoke detectors when I did a remodel, I got the ones that have a battery backup. The hard wiring is bad and intermittently goes off. I know it's a loose connection somewhere, but can't find it. I gave up and just keep changing the batteries..

 

[mopowr steve]

I've had the same thing happen once also a few years back with a GFCI receptacle but the only thing I did was change the GFCI. I think the MOV inside went bad and allowed the transients from speed control to have an adverse affect on the circuitry of GFCI.

 

[jap]

I've had the same thing happen once also a few years back with a GFCI receptacle but the only thing I did was change the GFCI. I think the MOV inside went bad and allowed the transients from speed control to have an adverse affect on the circuitry of GFCI.

My wife said it had been going on for over a week now,,, she just kept resetting it...good of her to let me know about it.


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[brantmacga]

Weird, I've been having the same issue at my house with the hair dryer GFI chattering. I don't know what's causing it, nor have I investigated.


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