Electricalartist
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I had a service call today at a super market. The refrigerator circuit keeps tripping. There's a 20 amp general purpose circuit with two refrigerators plugged into 2 seperate receptacles on the same circuit. One refrigerator is 13 amps the other is 6. Turns out they had a heater also plugged in the same circuit.
My fix is to run a dedicated circuit. What I was told is to put a 30 amp breaker.
So after I wrote down all the material I needed for a dedicated circuit. I called the foreman and he told me to put in a 30 amp breaker since it's number 10 wire in the panel. It threw me for such a loop that I totally forgot to open up the receptacles to see if there's number 10 wire on the receptacles. I'm pretty sure without even opening them that there's a splice box in the ceiling and from that box the number 10 feed is spliced with number 12 MC jumping these outlets.
Anyway let's just say there is number 10 wire on these outlets is it okay to put a 30 amp breaker? I'm not that great with the code. Just off of common sense i don't think I could put a 30 amp breaker on a general receptacle circuit.
My fix is to run a dedicated circuit. What I was told is to put a 30 amp breaker.
So after I wrote down all the material I needed for a dedicated circuit. I called the foreman and he told me to put in a 30 amp breaker since it's number 10 wire in the panel. It threw me for such a loop that I totally forgot to open up the receptacles to see if there's number 10 wire on the receptacles. I'm pretty sure without even opening them that there's a splice box in the ceiling and from that box the number 10 feed is spliced with number 12 MC jumping these outlets.
Anyway let's just say there is number 10 wire on these outlets is it okay to put a 30 amp breaker? I'm not that great with the code. Just off of common sense i don't think I could put a 30 amp breaker on a general receptacle circuit.