[orbital-decay]

>Anything around ~2k watts on a single circuit breaker is likely to flip it

I'm curious, how do you use e.g. a washing machine or an electric kettle, if 2kW is enough to flip your breaker? You should simply know your wiring limits. Breaker/wiring at my home won't even notice this.

[trillic]

My kettle only pulls 1500W, as do most in the US. Our water just takes longer to boil than in Europe. My washer / dryer has its own 30a breaker as does my Oven as well as water heater. My garbage disposal has its own 15a breaker.

Boiling 1 liter takes like 2 mins. Most Americans don’t have kettles because they don’t drink tea.

[immibis]

Americans do not have electric kettles and need special circuits for electric clothes dryers.

[lolinder]

We have an electric kettle in the US and it runs just fine drawing 1500W.

You're correct that the dryer is on a larger circuit, though.

[beAbU]

> and it runs just fine drawing 1500W.

You think that this is "just fine" because you've never experienced the glory that is a 3kW kettle!

[rootusrootus]

I just get 99C water from a tap next to my kitchen sink. Why do people still use kettles?

[dymk]

Because they don’t have a spare few grand for an instant hot plus installation

[rootusrootus]

You’re off by an order of magnitude. They are a couple hundred bucks and an easy DIY job.

[fragmede]

Japanese water boilers keep it boiling so there's no wait at all!

[blibble]

I get bored and tend to wander off waiting for it to boil at 3kW

1.5kW must be absolute agony

[lolinder]

I mean... yes, I don't sit around waiting for the kettle to boil. But if I fill it and start it first the water is already boiling by the time I get everything out, so it's not like any time is wasted as is.

[jamesbfb]

Huh, what?! Mega TIL moment for me as an Australian with an electric kettle and dryer plugged into whatever power socket I wish! Reminds me of this great Technology Connections video: https://youtu.be/jMmUoZh3Hq4?si=3vSMHmU2ClwNRtow

[Yodel0914]

I'm pretty sure in our current rental the kitchen and laundry are on the same circuit, which means I'll often have the dryer, washing machine, kettle, toaster and microwave drawing power at the same time. It's never been an issue.

[XMasterrrr]

What kind of a dryer? Because that cannot be right. Dryers require a 30amp 240volt dedicated breakers by code in most counties in most states nowadays.

[Yodel0914]

It's a bosch heat pump dryer, but previously we had a traditional vented dryer.

I've never seen a dedicated circuit for dryers in Australia, and I've lived in probably a dozen different properties. Ovens, aircon, hot water, bathroom heat lamps often have dedicated circuits, though.

[HeatrayEnjoyer]

Insane

[XMasterrrr]

If that is true and OP is not just confused, he should sue his landlord, and I am not even kidding!!!

[HeatrayEnjoyer]

Why would regular sockets need to supply that much juice

[mattnewton]

I rent an old Victorian. I have one breaker line for the fridge and microwave and one line for basically everything else.

If that wasn’t the limit though, the fact that the machine is currently a space heater at 2 liquid cooled 4090’s would be.

[nathanasmith]

I heat water on the stove top which is plugged into a 240 volt outlet.