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Originally Posted by Wormius
For the sparkies - AFCIs and microwaves. What to do about nuisance tripping? Our microwave is on a separate breaker just for it, and somedays the microwave runs fine, but others it will trip the breaker every time, no matter what power setting we use. It’s a 1000W Panasonic and a 20A Siemens AFCI breaker. I know this is a bit of a well known phenomenon with AFCIs but is there a fix that won’t go against the electrical code? We mentioned to Inspector and he sympathized, but only other thing he said it use a regular breaker, but had to do something outside the panel to stay compliant with new regulations for the AFCIs.
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Step 1 - Go to Home Depot
Step 2 - Buy a regular Breaker
Step 3 - Replace the AFCI piece of Junk
Step 4 - Put the AFCI breaker in a drawer for the next time you need to have your panel inspected.