Timeline for Can a 25 amp breaker be used on #12 wire to feed a fridge receptacle?
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| Apr 10, 2024 at 16:07 | comment | added | RMDman | Not that I am aware of. | |
| Apr 10, 2024 at 15:37 | comment | added | ron | so in the ~5 months the 25amp breaker hasn't caused any problems? | |
| Apr 9, 2024 at 20:19 | comment | added | RMDman | @ron, Nothing was done. It was not my desire to get anymore involved in this thing. I warned the owner and she said she would work out things with her brother, ( the Engineer.) If any amperage reading were done i was not aware. I fully agree the Refrigerator was most likely the issue, but as I said, not my fridge, not my breaker not my house. | |
| Apr 9, 2024 at 18:25 | comment | added | ron | @RMDman - if you're still around I'm genuinely interested in hearing how things turned out and how the convincing him he was wrong worked out. Was fridge [startup] amperage ever measured? | |
| Apr 9, 2024 at 16:01 | answer | added | Ed Rorie | timeline score: 0 | |
| Nov 3, 2023 at 16:28 | answer | added | Machavity♦ | timeline score: 3 | |
| Nov 3, 2023 at 1:27 | answer | added | Harper - Reinstate Monica | timeline score: 11 | |
| Nov 1, 2023 at 21:23 | comment | added | Ben Voigt | Send an email to your state's board of professional licensing for engineers; ask if an engineering license satisfies a requirement to have an electrician license (it doesn't). In your request politely ask for the reply to be on official letterhead. As a licensed professional (electrical) engineer myself, I am confident that they will be happy to oblige, and that their opinion will carry some weight with your engineer friend. You don't need an exact code he's breaking, you need to remind him that his license (assuming he has one in the first place) ain't an electrician's license. | |
| Nov 1, 2023 at 20:49 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Nov 1, 2023 at 14:31 | history | edited | NoSparksPlease | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
There are applications that allow #12 to exceed 20A that including those in answer would not be useful.
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| Nov 1, 2023 at 13:47 | answer | added | NoSparksPlease | timeline score: 14 | |
| Nov 1, 2023 at 13:40 | answer | added | manassehkatz-Moving 2 Codidact | timeline score: 3 | |
| Nov 1, 2023 at 13:39 | answer | added | nobody | timeline score: 19 | |
| Nov 1, 2023 at 13:03 | comment | added | crip659 | Second problem is that you/or the owner and the tenant or Joe down the street cannot touch the panel breakers except to turn them off and on, in most areas. If it is the owner's house that only their family lived in it is okay, but once it becomes a rental, then they need a licensed electrician to do any work. Should be able to find out about needing an electrician in local codes on rentals. | |
| Nov 1, 2023 at 12:56 | comment | added | Aloysius Defenestrate | Code citation in the accepted answer: diy.stackexchange.com/questions/61521/… | |
| Nov 1, 2023 at 12:47 | history | asked | RMDman | CC BY-SA 4.0 |