Refrigerator compressors take a LOT of startup current.

Now days, a typical fridge compressor runs about 4.5 amps running
(yes, I'm an appliance repairman, and I get to use an ammeter on
refrigerator compressors now and again). Figure another hundred for
the fans. Which is generous. But the start up current can be 15 amps
or so.

The gas furnaces I've measured tend to run about 7 amps, can't
remember the start up currents.

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Doug Miller wrote:

A typical refrigerator requires much more power than a typical gas
furnace.

Seems unlikely, unless the fridge contains a 400 watt blower :-)

Nick