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Wiz
Explorer
Jun 13, 2015

Main breaker trips with A/C and Microwave on.->RESOLVED

My main circuit breaker trips if we start the microwave when the A/C is running. Today when it happened, I forgot to turn off the AC before resetting the breaker and the A/C wouldn't start. I turned i...
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time2roll
Nomad
Jun 14, 2015
Salvo wrote:
The microwave and converter have a power factor around 0.7. Those currents are 40% greater than you think. Putting a scope on the ac line would be interesting. Have you measured voltage with a true rms meter?
I thought PF increased the apparent power needed.... not the actual power used.

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