"Doug Miller" wrote in message
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In article , "sinister"
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I'm renting the top half of a house.

For the second time now, the circuit breaker for one of the circuits in
the
kitchen tripped. (Aside: annoying 'cuz the breaker switches are in the
other half of the house.)

Here's what was running and what their labels say:
* Microwave (13 amps)
* Fridge (6.5 amps)
* Hair dryer (blower): 1875 W

1875 W / 120 V = 15.6 A

13 + 6.5 + 15.6 = 35.1

Is it reasonable that this keeps happening?

Reasonable that the circuit breaker keeps tripping, yes.
Reasonable that you're overloading it, well... maybe not. :-)

Thanks for responding to my post.

I meant, reasonable that the kitchen seems to be wired with so few circuits.

I just tested...there's one other outlet near the sink, that's not on the
same circuit. (In-sink garbage disposal and perhaps some of the big
appliances are on that circuit.) But AFAICT there's only one outlet on that
circuit.

But the fridge and microwave are on one circuit, for sure, and that's
already 19.5 A.

The house is pretty old, but
the kitchen is supposedly an addition. (Though it could still be not so
new.)

I'm not sure if the amps/circuit is too low,

No -- you're overloading it.

or if there aren't enough circuits,

You need *at*least* two circuits for that load, and three would be better.

or whether that's an unreasonable load.

That's an unreasonable load. Why are you running the hair dryer in the
kitchen?

Wife likes to dry her hair while she's eating.

Also, it happened when the microwave, 900 W toaster, and fridge were on.


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Regards,
Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)

It's time to throw all their damned tea in the harbor again.