Anyone with Roger's Lite accounts?

[James Knott]

D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> | From: Mike Kallies <mike.kallies-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>
> 
> | Yeah, those are the devices, GFI(C)s ground fault interrupt
> | (circuits).  They make you replace your ungrounded outlets with the
> | GFIC if you need to inspect an old house.
> 
> We did that in our house.  Voluntarily.  The house was built after
> Hurricane Hazel (October 1954).
> 
> | The GFIC is a pain in the butt with big motors because the motors
> | temporarily unbalance the current by storing the power in momentum. 
> 
> I don't know why but my notebook will pop them.  Very annoying.  I
> wonder if it is because it has power factor correction.  I don't
> really know what that is (something to do with why EEs use complex
> numbers).  Or why it would trip GFIs (or if it is something else about
> my notebook that is bothering them).

There might be leakage through a cable to some other device.

> 
> The Wikipedia entry explains why these might be used with switchmode
> power supplies.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_factor_correction
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