Is this normal for a 30 amp breaker
The 20 amp breaker for the air conditioner get warm when the air is running. Is this normal?
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Terryallan wrote:cavie wrote:
no. a 20 amp breaker on a 12 amp load should not be hot. You have a loose connection or loose breaker on the buss bar.
I don't know. I really don't. But I'm thinkin the AC pulls more than 12 amps.
Starting, yes. Running, probably not generally, or at least not a lot more. 15 kBTU and 12 A works out to an EER of 10.4, which sounds about right. 13 A running would not surprise me. (EER is BTU per watt under some test conditions; SEER is the same, with a specified set of varying test conditions in an attempt to simulate a "cooling season".)
