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   IHammerI | Oct 27, 2008 03:30am | #1

   15 amp switch
   20 amp tool
   20 amp service

   equals

   tripped switch every time.
   yes I know it worked a few times before it started tripping but like a break once it starts tripping he becomes eaiser to trip the next time.

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   ktkamm | Oct 27, 2008 03:51am | #2

   The product reviews were excellent and quite a number of responders were using it with the same type of 1.5 HP dust collector without a problem. Do you know for a fact that the switch is 15 amp (not in my shop at present).

    

   Thanks.

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   IHammerI | Oct 27, 2008 03:58am | #3

   I don't have the rockler switch but a co worker had the same one from WoodCraft. He had used it on a older sears Shop vac for awhile and was pleased. He switched over to a Delta dust collector and started having problems. I spent a fair amount of time until I discovered that the switch was set to operate at 15 amps. His old shop vac ran at 12 amps and the new(to him) dust collector was twenty amps.My guess is that you're having the same problem. A quick check is to pull a lower amp item into the switch and see what happens.

   Edited 10/26/2008 8:59 pm ET by IHammerI

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   ktkamm | Oct 27, 2008 04:03am | #4

   Thanks for the help. Will try this week.

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   forestgirl | Oct 27, 2008 07:12am | #5

   I seem to remember someone else having this same problem a month or two ago.  Not you, was it??  Nope, it was whiskeytango in this thread.

   forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl ;-) 

   
   

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   Edited 10/27/2008 12:15 am by forestgirl

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   ktkamm | Oct 27, 2008 03:02pm | #6

   Thanks FG for the heads up. Just goes to show that the search engine here is a powerful tool and a wealth of information.

   Kieran