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Re: Circuit Breaker 22AIC

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From: boB...@K7IQ.com (boB)
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Subject: Re: Circuit Breaker 22AIC
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2023 09:16:51 -0700
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by: boB - Tue, 26 Sep 2023 16:16 UTC

On Sun, 24 Sep 2023 13:59:06 -0700 (PDT), Fred Bloggs
<bloggs.fredbloggs.fred@gmail.com> wrote:

>On Sunday, September 24, 2023 at 3:28:37?PM UTC-4, Eddy Lee wrote:
>> I have microwave, fridge and 10 laptops on a 20A circuit. Fine most of the time until I use the microwave. Should I try a 22 Amp Interrupting Circuit breaker? Existing one might be 10AIC.
>
>I think you mean 10KAIC, which is not directly related to trip current as much as breaker contact construction. Plug the smallest load, laptop (?), into a different less loaded circuit via extension cord. Or wire a new circuit, which doesn't have to be all the way to the panel, it can be a tap off an existing circuit in the proximity.

This is correct. AIC is the maximum rated current the breaker can
interrupt. I doubt you will have thousands of amps to interrupt but
you might.

boB

Avoid strange women and temporary variables.

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