When I was a kid, for years our fridge would sometimes give me a
tingle when I touched the handle. Finally when my parents bought a new one,
I discovered that it had been plugged into an old, ungrounded outlet with one
of those grounded-to-ungrounded adapters, with the little grounding pigtail cut
off.
Don't find yourself in the same situation!
Doug Braun
At 09:13 AM 10/26/2005 -0500, John Niolon wrote:
>I had an older model (15 years) GE fridge that would do the same thing...
>we finally summarized (brainstorming with a refrigeration guy) that the
>wiring in the compressor had developed a intermittent short to the
>case..... it still ran for years and we moved it to a non-gfi circuit...
>we would occasionally measure voltage to ground and never found a problem..
>it sat on a rubber mat in the garage. it finally died several years later
>and was replaced... but I think it was a common problem with older units...
>most gfi's have an extremely low problem threshold ... which most times is
>a good thing..
>
>john
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