David,

I would assume that the GFI in the trailer is similiar if not the sameas
what is used in houses. I had a GFI breaker in my house. I discovered
after our first lighting storm that GFI breakers are not the way togo.

When we bough our house the owners had to replace the breaker becauethe
test button was not working. About a month after we moved in the breaker
was tripped the morning after a big lightning storm. I couldn't getthe
breaker reset and assumed the lightning storm had fried it.

After a trip to Home Depot and severe sticker shock I decided to installa
regular breaker. I am now going to install a GFI outlet on the firstnode
of that circuit. That will protect all outlets downstream on the same
circuit.

The price was about $57.00 for the GFI breaker compared to about $9.00for
the GFI outlet. I would rather spend $9.00 a storm instead of $57.00.
That could get expensive being in the lightning capital of the world,
Florida!

- Mike Thornton
Eustis, FL
 
 

David Newell wrote:

> I have one GFCI in my Airstream that keeps tripping and the bad feature
> of this it the Univolt is on that circuit. I'm certain my Deep cycle
> battery has frozen and bitten the dust because of this. I'm aboutto
> take out the GFI and throw it as far as I can and reinstall a regular
> circit breaker. Has anyone any suggestions on this maladay. Whendid
> GFI's come about was this a add on./ or was this factory installed?
> Since the Outside outlets are on the same line I'm a bit reluctantto
> get rash.
> Dave Newell-Pepperell Mass.