Air conditioner help: My air conditioner keeps blowing fuses.

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My air conditioner keeps blowing fuses.

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fractal.scatter 1 #
An Unknown Location | 3 years, 12 months ago (2 minutes after post)

Put a fuse with a higher ampere rating in.

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KATIE523 1 #
An Unknown Location | 3 years, 12 months ago (6 minutes after post)

Put in circuit breakers. do not put in higher amp fuses. that will cause a fire.

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An Unknown Location | 3 years, 12 months ago (11 minutes after post)

KATIE523 wrote:
PUT IN CIRCUIT BREAKERS. DO NOT PUT IN HIGHER AMP FUSES. THAT WILL CAUSE A FIRE.

If you put in curcuit breakers it will just trip out the circuit anyway. And depending on the power of the equipment and supply voltage a higher rating fuse would be necessary and obviously the device and supply wiring would be capable of taking the current. if however you have been using the device for a long time, and it has suddenly started doing this, then the most probable cause is a circuit fault causing current to run to Earth. If this is the case then a higher amp fuse would still be destroyed.

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An Unknown Location | 3 years, 10 months ago (2 months after post)

We rent an older house, another tenant told us that the landlord was told to update the wiring and give us access to the fuses which are located in the basement. When we use two air conditioners the fuse blows (the whole apartment is connected to one fuse), i was wondering should the whole house be updated to breakers? Would this solve the problem? Would anyone know the code for Stonington, CT?

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An Unknown Location | 2 years, 10 months ago (1 year, 1 month after post)

yes you need to update to a breaker box .. when we moved in to our house it had fuses and we could run the air or heat becouse it wasent wired right and it need to be updated . so i would advise you to update to a breaker box.

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An Unknown Location | 10 months, 2 weeks ago (3 years, 1 month after post)

most units need a timed relay that will not let the unit run for 5 minutes after a power flicker, this protects the compressor, which is under extreme pressure, and when the power flucuates, the high pressure will not let the bearing inside the compressor turn, thus causing a open circuit…………….I personally have a timed relay, and sometimes I still get an open circuit when the power surges ?? Mine is a make on delay timer, but I think I will replace it with a make on break timer……..hope this helps you guys !!

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