|
| It may be that your GFCI is trying to tell you something you are ignoring. That the heater, particularly the cord right at the heater is leaking from the hot wire to the safety ground wire and when that leakage gets strong enough it WILL ignite the wire insulation and likely the tractor. That spreads to the shed and you have a major fire loss.
The connection end of the block heater runs HOT, hotter than the water temperature and that cooks and chars the wire insulation in that connection. The progression of that char is what the GFCI detects on the older block heater and not on the new.
It will be better fire safety to replace the decaying block heater than to bypass the GFCI outlet.
Gerald J. | |
|
Block Heaters & GFCI Outlets
