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If the appliance tells you how many watts it's supposed to use you can buy a watt-meter to measure how many watts the appliance is using buy plugging in the meter into the wall and then plugging the appliance into the meter. A popular brand is "Kill A Watt", it meter can be bought on E-bay for under $25.

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Look on the appliance's nameplate. All appliances have one. There it will tell you what the amperage is. If not the amperage then it will tell you the watts the appliance uses. Use the following equation to find the amperage if the nameplate only states the watts. Amps = Watts/Volts. This will tell you what the amperage of the appliance is.

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