Help with Equitech 1.5Q power conditioner


Hello all. My Equitech GFCI plug on the back keeps popping when I turn on the switches Equitech switches. Am I overloading the unit or is there an issue with the GFCI plug. It worked for a while but was always super easy to trip. I only have my Amp, preamp, TV, and speakers plugged into it. Any help would be appreciated. I am in in San Francisco bay area, are there recommendations to any place I can take to to get it looked at? With it tripping so much would replacing the gfci plug with a new one help (wonder if the current one is worn out?). It is out of warranty and I do not have the box it came in to ship. Thanks!

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So, essentially the outlets on the back of the Equitech are wired the same way as old 240V appliances, the kind that had 3-wire cords. Correct? How does it handle floating-ground loads? I’m a bit confused

So, essentially the outlets on the back of the Equitech are wired the same way as old 240V appliances, the kind that had 3-wire cords. Correct?

That seems close, but the house N is not grounded through the Equitech. Or at least should not be. Ye olde (pre 1990s?) dryer DID bond N and ground internally to the dryer. There’s no reason to do that with a balanced conditioner... but I don’t speak for the manufacturers. Who knows what crazy things they do. smiley

The secondary winding on these isolated devices is split. The center of the two coils is bonded to ground, so the outside ends of the 2 coils are each equal and opposite 60VAC.

And herein is a problem which the founder of Jensen transformers wrote about ages ago, that there’s still the possibility for a ground loop. Ooops.

Anyway, what floating ground load?

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So maybe I am conceptualizing this all wrong.

I guess in my mind I view electricity like water. It flows in through the hot pipe and out the neutral pipe, if you will, and the ground catches spills :)

Here we have 2 hots at 60V each flowing in through both the hot wire and what normally is the neutral wire. How does it flow out then? Can’t be through the ground wire. Is it then that the two hots are also neutrals? They just swap duties 60 times a second?

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