From: bruce1.9bowser@gmail.com   
      
   On Friday, December 8, 2023 at 5:08:28 PM UTC-5, Ed P wrote:   
   > On 12/8/2023 4:19 PM, cshenk wrote:    
   > > Ed P wrote:    
   > >> On 12/7/2023 6:43 PM, bruce bowser wrote:    
   > >>    
   > >>>> I got both but having the microwave and the air fryer on at the    
   > >>>> same time will trip the circuit breaker.    
   > >>>    
   > >>> Some homes have upgraded to 60 amp breakers. So that's no problem    
   > >>> for them. (And a few homes have all-steel frames and have their    
   > >>> neutral circuitry hooked up to the cold water main). You can load    
   > >>> that thing up like a factory.    
   > >>    
   > >> 60A is so 1950. Everything has been 100A for many years. My house    
   > >> is 200A.    
   > >>    
   > >> Water and other parts can be grounded, but should not be the neutral    
   > >>    
   > > https://eepower.com/technical-articles/nec-2023-basics-groun   
   ing-and-bonding-piping-systems-and-exposed-structural-metal/#    
   > >    
   > > Ed, I think he's talking individual circuits, not the whole breaker box    
   > > like you are.    
   > >    
   > > 200amp house service is the common one today. I have about 30 breakers    
   > > in there. 3 are 240's, the rest are a mix of 30 and 60. Some aren't    
   > > used.   
   > He may but but if so, he is wrong.    
      
   I am not wrong!!  Are you nuts?  You NEVER mention more than a 60 amp breaker   
   for residential uses.  Are you kidding?    
   (you've been around too many of those mini mansions or something - crossposted   
   to sci.electronics.repair)   
      
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