Why does my refrigerator keep tripping the GFCI?
Why does the fridge trip the GFCI? Any inductive load when switched off, can produce electromagnetic interference (EMI). This interference can, and often does, trip GFCI devices. Most vapor compression refrigerators have a few inductive loads, any of which could cause the trip.Click to see full answer. Keeping this in consideration, does a refrigerator need…
Why does the fridge trip the GFCI? Any inductive load when switched off, can produce electromagnetic interference (EMI). This interference can, and often does, trip GFCI devices. Most vapor compression refrigerators have a few inductive loads, any of which could cause the trip.Click to see full answer. Keeping this in consideration, does a refrigerator need to be on a GFCI?All commercial buildings/kitchens are required to have GFCI for refrigerators. If the circuit feeding the refrigerator outlet is a dedicated individual circuit, than it can be either 15-A or 20-A. In a garage or an unfinished basement of a Dwelling unit, the refrigerator must have a GFCI circuit.Similarly, can a refrigerator cause a GFCI to trip? Fridges and freezers can cause a ‘nuisance trip’ of a GFCI now and then. And these nuisance trips can cause food to spoil. That is why you shouldn’t put fridges and freezers on a gfci. But if the fridge always causes the GFCI to trip immediately when plugged in, this strongly suggests a ground fault in the fridge. Subsequently, one may also ask, why does my freezer trip the GFCI? Question: if the compressor kicking on is causing the GFCI to trip then there is either a problem with the load on the circuit or the refrigerator. The spike in the current flow caused by the compressor should not be enough to trip a GFCI under normal operating conditions.Can you put more than one GFCI on a circuit?You only need 1 GFCI outlet per circuit (assuming it’s at the beginning of the line and the rest of the outlets are loads). They are correctly wired in parallel – if they were in series, you wouldn’t get the correct voltage at the other outlets when there is any type of load present. It is possible.
