Separate circuit required for gas dryer in a dwelling unit?

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cppoly

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In a dwelling unit, can you put the receptacle for a gas dryer on the same 20A circuit for laundry (1,500 VA) or do you need a separate dedicated 20A circuit for the gas dryer? Thanks.
 
You only need one 20 amp circuit for the laundry area if the dryer is gas. This can serve both the washer and the gas dryer.
 
Any downsides in doing so? I'm wondering if 1,500 VA high inrush from Laundry affects the dryer electronics. Or maybe not but just bringing this up.
 
cppoly said:
Any downsides in doing so? I'm wondering if 1,500 VA high inrush from Laundry affects the dryer electronics. Or maybe not but just bringing this up.
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I don't think so. I've always had the washer and gas dryer on the same 20 amp circuit in every place I've ever lived and never had an issue.
 
Personally I'd want the washer and dryer on 2 separate circuits seeing as how they both are only 120v and both are motor loads.

But that's just me.

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Our house which was rewired multiple times by idiots has two washers and two gas dryers all on the same 20A "laundry' circuit. It has never tripped. And one washer and one dryer have steam functions.
 
Other than variable speed motors, most washer or dryer motors that are "across the line" started likely exceed 1500 watts of inrush for a brief period during starting. A 20 amp breaker will likely hold at 70, 80 even 100 amps for a few seconds.
 
ptonsparky said:
FPE?

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No. I changed the service about 4 years ago. Prior to that it was on a BR breaker. Now its on a CH AFCI. Neither have ever tripped. The only tripping problem I had was the kitchen, where they had a #14 circuit on a 20A breaker feeding everything (including the built in microwave) and I reduced it to 15A (BR type) and it started tripping. I had to run pipe on the outside of the house to get more power there, but now the microwave has its own circuit, half the kitchen has a real 20A circuit, and the rest is on the 15A circuit along with the living room that is part of it. That 15A circuit was the old one that had a 20A on it that always used to trip when I put the 15A on it.
 
ptonsparky said:
Don’t. From my experience the trip coil burns up. You can reset it, but it never trips again. Good/bad, IDK.
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Same problem with GFCI receptacles when appliance is running.

Maybe the listed xFCI instructions, which require monthly exercise of Test button, are designed to force buying another one every month ?
 
Never had an issue with 1 20amp circuit for washer and gas dryer. Before that requirement the laundry circuit was usually 20A and was allowed on the SABC with the kitchen and DR and never had an issue then
 
Eddie702 said:
Never had an issue with 1 20amp circuit for washer and gas dryer. Before that requirement the laundry circuit was usually 20A and was allowed on the SABC with the kitchen and DR and never had an issue then
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How long ago was laundry supposedly allowed on the SABC's? I don't know that it ever was without going way back to before any of us were old enough to be installing (and not just dad's little helper)
 
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