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Learned my air fryer pulls 1500 watts so I ran it on the same outlet as the microwave and killed the breaker
I was reading the little booklet that came with my air fryer last week and it lists it at 1500 watts. That number surprised me because I always thought of it as this light little countertop thing. So I did what any genius does and plugged it into the same outlet as the microwave in my apartment kitchen here in Sacramento. Ran both for maybe 4 minutes and the breaker tripped and took out half the kitchen with it. My girlfriend just stood there laughing while I fumbled with a flashlight. Turns out 1500 watts plus 1000 from the microwave is way over what a standard 15 amp circuit can handle at once. Now I unplug the microwave entirely before I fry anything and I have not tripped it since. Has anyone else had to map out their kitchen outlets like this, or am I just living in an old building?
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william91721d ago
Plugging a 1500 watt air fryer and a 1000 watt microwave into the same circuit was never going to end any other way, so the breaker did exactly what it was built to do. That outlet likely shares a 15 amp line with half the kitchen, and 2500 watts pulls over 20 amps, so the trip was the safest thing that could have happened. Old building or new, most kitchen circuits are wired for one big appliance at a time, not two. Your fix works, but you could also just move the air fryer to a different outlet on another circuit and leave the microwave plugged in.
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