Doug Miller wrote:
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Don't dry your hair in the kitchen. Duh.
Also happened when the microwave, 900 W toaster, and fridge were on.

So don't try to run the microwave, toaster, and fridge at the same time. Or
move at least one of them to a different circuit.
Yeah, and that still leaves the fridge plus microwave on one circuit, at
19.5 A, which is pretty close to 20 A, which is possibly the limit for that
circuit.

Well, you have a problem there. You're trying to put more load on the circuits
than they can handle. And you're renting, so you can't modify them.

Your choices are, unfortunately, pretty limited:
a) stop overloading the circuit
b) live with the breaker trips
c) move.

You could try to persuade the landlord to add a couple of new 20A circuits in
the kitchen, but I doubt he's going to do that out of his own pocket.
Not to mention this balogne that the circuit breaker box is in the other
half of the house,

Of course, that wouldn't be an issue if you weren't overloading the circuit.

behind a huge entertainment center.

*That* is a violation of the electrical code, which requires breaker panels to
be in a "readily accessible" location. If you have to move the entertainment
center to get at the panel, it's not "readily accessible". (OTOH, if the
entertainment center is far enough away from the wall that you can walk behind
it, it may meet that requirement.)


It seams unlikely that the second apartment was done with permits. The
electrical code specifically forbids supplying a dwelling unit from a
panel located in another dwelling unit. The breakers serving a dwelling
unit must be accessible to the occupants of that dwelling unit without
opening locks or entering another dwelling unit.
--
Tom Horne