Refrigerator Blowing Breaker
My frig will run on 30 amp no problem, but when I plug the trailer into a normal 110 outlet it blows the breaker. I took the side panel off and saw the frig was plugged into a local outlet behind the ...
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MrWizard wrote:
The fridge by itself, will not trip a 20 amp breaker
But it can add 3 or 4 amps to an already heavily loaded circuit
To trip the breaker for that circuit at home
But i agree with everyone who thinks the heating element is bad
Correct, but almost ALL garage and outside receptacles are on a GFCI breaker which will trip from a defective Heat Element. It is NOT the Load, but the Imbalance between the White(Neutral) and HOT (Black) that trips a GFCI. Doug
