GCFI popped

Van_and_Terri

Van_and_Terri

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I had the 560 plugged in to the electrical socket in the garage when a really bad storm came thru and we had a very nearby lightning strike. Went to hookup the 560 and go camping and noticed the GCFI outlet in the galley was flashing red. Unplugged the teardrop and reset to GCFI outlet and it immediately tripped again when I plugged it back in. I’m thinking the lightening strike fried the converter? I will call the nest tomorrow. Thoughts in the meantime?
 
Sweeney said:
Sounds like teh GFCI outlet is damaged --- eeeeasy fix. Call the RVgeek and maybe you can convince him to swing through Florida :D

I just talked to him. He said he NEEDS to get home by Sunday.
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It was a GCFI issue. I did learn something when changing it. Depending on the manufacturer of the GCFI, the load and line end of the GCFI may be reversed. I installed the new one insuring same orientation, and the GCFI was not working properly until I noticed the orientation of the load and line ends of the GCFI were reversed from each other. Cary was very helpful with troubleshooting and patient with my stupidity.
 
Van_and_Terri said:
It was a GCFI issue. I did learn something when changing it. Depending on the manufacturer of the GCFI, the load and line end of the GCFI may be reversed. I installed the new one insuring same orientation, and the GCFI was not working properly until I noticed the orientation of the load and line ends of the GCFI were reversed from each other. Cary was very helpful with troubleshooting and patient with my stupidity.
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It's not stupidity! There are just surprising few standards. Rarely do different manufacturers follow any kind of standard. Heck in the 'big rv' space you'll find different colored wires used on different days of the week.

One exception, one company uses yellow wire for EVERY wire (12 volt positive) -- they print a code on the wire, you need a cross reference to know what it is. Its maddening! If aviation did this -- we'd have a TSB story in the news every darned day.
 
Sweeney said:
It's not stupidity! There are just surprising few standards. Rarely do different manufacturers follow any kind of standard. Heck in the 'big rv' space you'll find different colored wires used on different days of the week.

One exception, one company uses yellow wire for EVERY wire (12 volt positive) -- they print a code on the wire, you need a cross reference to know what it is. Its maddening! If aviation did this -- we'd have a TSB story in the news every darned day.
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Actually aviation kinda does do that.
In most of the certified planes I have owned or been partners in, all of the wiring was white, with no labels, and the only noticeable difference between one wire and another might be the gauge size printed on the fireproof tefzel jacket over the tinned copper wire. Trying to trace a wire from beginning to end within a large bundle of tightly tied up wires in a harness was a bit of a nightmare.

When I wired the plane I built, and currently fly, some electrical equip. came with color coded wiring, and for safety sake I of course used the fireproof aviation rated tefzel wire, but at least, I was able to use red for the power supply wires and white for the grounds that I made, which helps a lot, but then I also printed the name of what the wire was powering or grounding on a small piece of paper, and slid it under a piece of clear shrink wrap at each end of each wire before the heat gun shrunk it permanently in place for future reference. Fortunately, except for adding ADSB in/out 7yrs ago, there has been little need to dig into it over the last 19yrs, but I'm sure the next owner will be glad to see those colors and labels. Using common sense without the FAA's permission...just another reason the home-built experimental aircraft have become so popular over the past 70 years.;)
 

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Oh ya, my plane is all wired with white Tefzel wire throughout. Color code is not a thing in most older certified aviation.

Years ago I helped out my brother while he was over seas in the AF by getting his Harley sorted out and everything working. He had purchased it from our uncle who had stripped it all down and reconfigured the bike completely. When the uncle did this he completely rewired the whole bike. The problem is he only had one spool of wire, blue. So he ran all of the wires in blue. But as he was doing it he was having issues getting things to work. When he would find something was not working right he could cut off the ends of the wires going to that item and run all new blue wires to it. Sometimes he did that several times until he got the item wired correctly. I ended up pulling out this super thick bundle of blue wires, most of which were not even connected to anything. It was a pretty basic Superglide so there really should not have been much wire. Rewired it all correctly and it ran great for years then.

Cary
 
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