"Doug Miller" wrote in message
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In article , "sinister"
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"Doug Miller" wrote in message
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Thanks for responding to my post.

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

In an older home, sure. Very common.

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.

That would be a good place to plug in one of your high-current appliances.

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

You really should move the microwave to a different circuit.

[snip]
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.

Unless you can find a different circuit in the kitchen to plug that into,
she'll have to give that up.

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

Not surprising at all -- that's more than enough to overload a 20A
circuit.
You should not have the toaster and the microwave on the same circuit, or,
if
you can't avoid that, don't operate them both at the same time.

Is it OK that the MW + fridge is 13 + 6.5 = 19.5 A? Or does that mean that
one should definitely be moved?

Thanks for the very prompt and informative replies.


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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.