JD2720 said:
DeformedTree said:
JD2720 said:
Electric motors do not play well with arc fault breakers.
If you have your house wiring correct, and your tools are correctly functioning, there is no issues with arc fault breakers. NEC has required arc fault on all 110V circuits for many years now. When folks have issues with them, its A) the breaker is doing it's job and pointing out you have a wiring issues B) your tool as an issue and needs service/replacement. C) the particular arc fault breaker you have is bad (some early ones had some issues).
Folks need to stop thinking the arc fault breaker (the tech) is the issues and understand it exist because the issues that folks are trying to blame on the arc fault breaker.
It is not me, I do not have any of them.
They have been banned in my county & the surrounding counties because of all of the problems they have caused for contractors & home owners.
Builders have pushed to get them removed from code because they cost more. Also they prevent them from doing shoddy wiring practices like you 14-3 to wire 2 separate circuits, builders/electricians would do that to save a few bucks. Such practices were part of the reason for mandating them. Same excuses and reasoning to stop something anytime code gets changed. Some early arc faults had issues. Plenty of folks live in houses now with them. I have all arc fault breakers on my 110V stuff, old stuff, new stuff, brushed stuff, brushless stuff, it all works just fine on them.
I have an ETS-EC 125, runs on arc fault breakers just fine.