Refrigerator current load

I'm not aware of ours suffering that. Why do they have alot of leakage?

Lucas electrics weren't the ultimate, but weren't too bad really. And it was a long time ago.

I've never heard of Lucas fridges.

NT

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FFS Google the topic.

.... Phil

a thing is unheard of here.

letting food spoil. I suppose Botulism is unheard there, as well?

ck on, and if necessary plug the fridge freezer in somewhere else. It doesn 't seem to be a significant issue. If you only had the fridge on the circui t it would take far longer to realize power was lost.

If it trips with only the fridge or freezer on the circuit, resetting th e breaker wouldn't do any good, if a few hundred Watt load is tripping a 20 A breaker.

Indeed, if the fridge trips the breaker then it is broken...shorted motor or similar. Not going to work any better on another outlet! Whereas sometimes you can pop a breaker and not realize it.

One can always get a battery powered fridge alarm - I have it on our deep freeze, but my wife doesn't want it on the house fridge as she doesn't like the look of it...

John :-#)#

And don't overlook the fact that the breaker could be SNAFU. They're not designed to be switched off and on again -- over and over.

Jonesy

Or you can make Pimpom's blackout alarm (l> I made this little gadget for myself several years ago and have

Who does that to a fridge or freezer? I've only shut off one breaker to kill a fridge that had a damaged thermostat and was it icing over. It was m y dad's house, and he was going to stay at my sister's so there was no reas on to let the compressor run 24/7/365.25 days a rear. I need to haul it to the landfill for it can be sent for recycling.

How long can the piezo sound when powered by a 1000ufd cap? Perhaps a small battery would be a good addition...

John :-#)#

lol @ hostile