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Originally Posted by Drat
Thank you so much! I'm going to open the box up this weekend and poke around. I hope it's 1/4 as easy as you make it sound.
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It really is super easy.
That said, don't mess with it. Take pics and have the guys look at it.
On top of load, you have to consider wire weight, or the type/size of wire pulled throughout the house. For some reason, nowadays they pull 14 and 16 guage wire in houses, or have in the past. Why anyone would do that is beyond me, because it saves about 5 bucks on a job, but it happens.
Odds are that your overloaded circuit is tripping because of wire size and not overload at the breaker.
The best way to take care of it is to move the heaters off that circuit with the microwave and heavy load stuff.
I wired this whole house when I remodeled it about 10 years ago. I pulled 12 wire everywhere. Despite that, I overload this circuit where my computer, fish tank, microwave and a million other things are. I put the dining room on the same circuit as the kitchen because I have an old breaker box with discontinued super expensive breakers.
It was a good idea until I moved in here and plugged the whole world into one circuit.
Just blew the breaker yesterday while I was warming my coffee in the microwave and had a space heater plugged in at my desk. The space heater is just one appliance too much.
Your other (maybe not so) obvious option is to unplug the microwave. That way you'll know to turn off the heater before you use it, and no more crawling under the house.
