AC 20amp breaker trips mid day
Just came from Vegas 103 deg with no AC problems. At our new location which is also about 103 deg, the ac compressor would cycle and the fan would stay on with the thermostat on auto. Now it trips th...
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DFord wrote:
Trouble with the a device like the autoformer mentioned is that to increase the voltage, the amperage also increase and you're more susceptible to tripping the pedestal breaker - there's no free lunch and you won't be able to draw more than 24 amps (80%) through a 30 amp breaker for any length of time with it tripping.
Ok, so can you expand on a single scenario in which an Autoformer does something productive??...I’d like to know so to pass this along to those ‘scammers’ at Hughes Corp. - especially since I can’t figure out why my autoformer does exactly what Hughes advertises it to do and productively, and reliably ended my hard start problem...Then again, maybe I was the sole individual who ‘got the free lunch’ eh??
BTW, Drawing on my non-hypothetical experiences, I’ve yet to see a breaker trip - maybe Hughes anticipated this and figured out a way to solve for this phantom boogieman??
