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Rant: That brand new $200 GFCI breaker tripped for no reason 3 days in a row
I put in a new GFCI breaker on a job last week for a basement bathroom remodel. Customer wanted the expensive brand, the Square D QO series. It tripped every morning around 6 AM for three straight days. No load on it at night, nothing plugged in. I spent hours chasing a phantom ground fault, checked every box and splice twice. Finally I swapped it out for a different breaker from the same batch and the problem vanished. Had to eat the cost of the first one since the supply house won't take back used electrical parts. Anyone else run into duds from a fresh box of breakers lately?
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jade7383mo ago
And that's exactly the problem, you can't really test them until they're installed and live, so you're stuck with the cost if it's a dud. Wonder if it's a bad batch or just random QC issues with those QO breakers lately.
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