30amp breaker triggered
Yesterday, I had the ac, electric water heater, and rice cooker going and it kept triggering the 30amp breaker outside. I went to the gas water heater and everything was ok. today, at a different ...
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gcloss wrote:
Sounds normal and the circuit breaker did it's job.
This past July 4th weekend it was HOT .... A/C never stopped. With A/C running, water heater on and converter keeping 12 volts going, the remote display on my Progressive Industries EMS-HW30C was displaying 29 amps at 117 volts. Not a problem running right to the max.
I told DW that if she needed to run microwave or hair dryer to let me know and I will turn off A/C. Well DW doesn't say a word and turns on hair dryer. In a millisecond the 30 amp breaker on the pedestal tripped.
