I have had perfectly functional GFI plugs/boxes
"pop" when it was foggy/frosty, with high humidity I know it's
desert country but no one has told the weather gods.. Seems the
moisture would get into the plugs and short out. Not often, 2 or 3 times a
season. Unplug, re-plug and everything was fine.
I mostly fixed it by taping any connections from
heater plug to source of power.
I'm ready for temps to make water heaters
unnecessary (;>)
Subject: [RC] GFI Circuit Breakers +
Frozen Water Buckets
We're experiencing frozen water buckets even though we have
them on a couple GFI circuit *breakers* not GFI plugs. We have 3 water
buckets on 1 GFI circuit breaker and another 3 (one for the dog) on the other
GFI breaker. Additionally my husband has also only had 1 bucket on 1 GFI
circuit breaker. Well, lately we have had the GFI circuit breaker
tripping and ended up with frozen water buckets. Yet he had recently put
the big tank on a non-GFI breaker and it has not yet tripped.
I
realize GFIs are very important in preventing shock hazards to our horses but
my husband is about to put them on a non-GFI circuit just to prevent this
tripping.
We are in South-Central IL where the ground is frozen rock
hard and temps have been very cold. Tomorrow WC factor will likely be 0
most of the day so it will be a cold one.
Is there any advice or
suggestions I can pass on to my husband as to what we can do about
this?
