Trevor, while were on this topic, do you know how much can be sourced transiently on a 15A residential circuit before a breaker trips? I've looked for amps vs. time to trip curves for breakers and can't find any.
I keep wondering how it can be that I'm powering all my basement gear through a 15A circuit and have not managed to trip it. Voltage is rock stiff too.
Depends on temp conditions and age of breaker. In commercial, we can sneak out a longer time curve for compressors or large motors with a breaker with a 22KA interrupting rating vs 10KA with same overcurrent setting.
Page 32 onwards explains inverse time curve. Higher the current, shorter the trip time.
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