Help with Partial Outage in NY

cqueen40 said:
I plan to keep the focus on safety not upgrades. It's NY and 100 degree weather. Am I unreasonable that I choose to run two ACs (one in the BR and the other living room)? I didn't configure the circuits to have one 15A powering two ACs and a fridge. There is only one light that works clearly when this happens and it's at the other end of the apt. It appears that the room has it's own circuit and the rest of apt is on the other 15A
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In this day and age, I understand your problem. But what @WD-40 posted is correct. You're in a building that was not designed for any air conditioning. Built in 1931 Window ACs went even invented.

Back then you had a refrigerator and a toaster, and the stove was probably gas. no microwave, no dishwasher, disposal etc. Should the owner have up graded the wiring 50 or 60 years ago? Yes. But they didn't.

Back then you were lucky to have 1 receptacle in each room and a pull chain light.
 
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