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AFCI odd behaviour

tiger275
9 years ago

Hello all,

I have a lighting and ceiling fan circuit that is on an AFCI. An odd thing is happening....When I have the light sockets filled with LED or CFL, the AFCI works as expected. But, if I switch any of the bulbs in the ceiling fans to standard bulbs, the AFCI pops as soon as I get more then 2 bulbs installed.

Odd thing is that I have a few standard hanging fixtures on the same circuit and when I put standard bulbs in those fixtures, the arc fault is fine. Only when I place the bulbs in the ceiling fans, do i have a problem.

What would cause a 20AMP AFCI circuit to not pop on LED and CFL bulbs (17+) and ceiling fans (3) but as soon as I add some standard bulbs to the fan sockets, it pops?

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