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If the hot water heater and dryer are both run off of split 15A breakers is it safe to upgrade to 20A breakers?
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∙ 8y ago
You live in a mobile home, or older house? I live in a doublewide, and my dryer breakers are 30amp, and the water heater breakers are 20, both 220V lines, shared. The only safe way to answer this is to have an electrician look at your setup and determine if your wiring is capable for allowing a larger (bridge) to be installed. If they are tripping on a regular basis, it may be because you installed a new water heater that requires more current than what the breaker can handle, or a new dryer. The data labels that come with these units/appliances list the energy requirements needed to operate them. But an electrician will be able to tell you for sure.
15 amp breakers are usually feeding #14 wire. 20 amp breakers requires at least #12 wire.
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∙ 8y ago
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∙ 8y agoYes, as long as the circuit is not overloaded. Some kitchen appliances require a dedicated circuit depending on your local code. In my area the following require a dedicated circuit. Dish washer, refrigerator, microwave, garbage disposal, stove, and 2 separate dedicated circuits for all the rest of the kitchen receptacles. Check you local code.
Yes.
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∙ 10y agoThe supply from the breaker would need to be rated at enough amps to supply both appliances together. Since both these items use a lot of current that might be a problem.
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In North America, the electrical code states that high current appliances have to be on a dedicated circuit. Since the breaker protects the wire, two separate smaller conductors would be used. A dryer breaker is 30 amps and a hot water tank requires 20 amp breaker. If the appliances were paralleled off of a common breaker it would have to have a rating of 50 amps. This would require a #8 conductor and then to a junction box where the wire would have to be split to each appliance. The wire size can not be reduce at the junction box as the electrical code stated that any reduction in wire size needs to have a breaker or fuse, sized to protect the new wire size.
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