This is Joshua Peterson with Peterson Electric. A lot of common complaints, I get is that my refrigerator trips my GFCI receptacle & why is that. First of all, GFCI receptacles have to be in unfinished areas of the home according to article 210.8, National Electrical Code. That would be a garage, this is unfinished. The reason why they trip is there is a thing called harmonic balance & basically a motor on a refrigerator makes a harmonic sound. It takes that back through the sign way, the electrical sign way, to the panel. If your GFCI is on a breaker or your GFCI is down here, for example it will trip it. What we did for this customer, we brought in a circuit to the garage outside & then we ran Romex through the garage to over here to pick up his side lights for the front of the house. It is GFI between these two, but you can also parallel that GFCI receptacle so that receptacle won’t trip. Let me know show you how we had to do this. We had to run EMT, electrical metallic tubing. It is a half inch size. It is silver metallic. We ran it all the way here. It has to be compression tight, sealed. It also has to have a black seals on it, so it stays with the weather. We drag it all the way back here & brought it back down. That gave them a dedicated circuit. What the customer was requesting was to have a dedicated circuit for the garage, which we could have ran another circuit in there as well or at least two more & had enough room to three circuits out there. People say what is electrical metallic tubing look like? That is what it looks likes for the inside of the garage, as we pull our circuit to protect it in the outside weather, then we go back into the garage & turn it back into a dry condition. Thanks for joining us! See you next week.
