Posted: 5/13/2007 12:09:54 PM EDT
| I've got a breaker that I want to replace. It runs my outdoor outlets and a couple outlets in the crawlspace. It is a 15 amp breaker. The reason I want to replace it is my brother and I are both military stationed in NC (I'm at Bragg, he's at Lejeune). Our family is from ohio, my in laws from Michigan, his soon to be in laws are from Georgia. When family comes they stay at my place because he lives in the barracks and its a lot cheaper than everyone staying in hotels and driving between Jacksonville and Fayetteville. So anyway when they come there is usually a camper parked in my backyard and the 15 amp constantly trips. The AC in the camper can't be run and the pullouts have to be done manually. I'm thinking a 25 or 30 amp breaker would fit the bill here but I don't want to put one on thats too big. Or am I worried about nothing? Is there such a thing as too many amps in a breaker? |
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As an aside, I have a friend that is a firefighter. He was telling me about a firecall they had last week. A trailer house with an electric stove operating on 50 amps wired up with 14/2G, which is rated for 15 amps. Overloading wires till they melt is a bad thing. Putting in a bigger breaker because it is tripping constantly is how you overload wires till they melt. |