Indoor GFIC strip keeps tripping with only light plugged in?why?

[steelrat]

e2a only disconnect live and neutral pair!

 

[Muddy]

When you get repeated trips like that but it resets fine it's most likely not a fault in the GFI, the problem is likely downstream.

You have to disconncet and reconnect everything in the stream one at a time and trip-test.


steely

I agree. The amount of amperage isn't enough to trip it unless there is a problem with something that is plugged into it. The ballast is the first thing I'd look at.

 

[daddyfatsax09]

Its digital JD lighting... http://www.phillylicensedelectricia...res-trip-gfci-due-to-rfi-suppression-circuit/

 

[daddyfatsax09]

I was looking up gfcis in general and I heard they are touchy bastards ...I had my lights on last night for like 4 hrs no problem

I also read this*

* Thus, for example, you may have the phenomena of a ballast which exhibits ultra-low harmonic distortion (good) but generates unusually high levels of EMI or RFI (which can be bad depending on the dynamics of the particular workplace), or a ballast which has a very good soft-starting mechanism (for longer lamp life) but displays a disturbing inability to deal with transient voltage variations.

That was about gfi tripping..
And my ballast does have soft starting as a selling point,I'm thinking I'm just paranoid since some computers use more power then I'm using