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⚠️ Are your outlets working overtime? · Lipps Electric Podcast

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The most common is having an overloaded circuit.
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That's where you're plugging in too many devices on that circuit,
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where it's going to exceed the capacity.
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We've spoken before where we talked about 15 ampere acres versus 20 ampere acres
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versus 30s, and then you get into two poles, and that's a whole other topic.
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But if you are putting in a device, and a very common one, and the example I
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like to use a lot is talking about heaters.
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It could be a dryer or it could be a space heater that you use in the wintertime
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in your living room and, or, you know, heaters outside.
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But the most common is really is that living room heater. So people will come
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in and a lot of times in your living room, those are, those are typically 15
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amp circuits for the outlets.
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And you're using a device that can draw 20 amps.
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So that heat, now some of the newer ones don't draw as much,
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but majority of the, the, the heat will pull 20 amps. And that can melt that
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outlet and you don't want your outlet to melt.