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01-27-2019, 11:07 AM
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Breakers
We have a 2019 Montana legacy 3730fl. Whenever I use my electric fry pan in kitchen I blow the breaker if the tv and fireplace are on, is this normal? I can’t use any electrical appliance if the tv and fireplace are on.
Thanks for any input.
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01-27-2019, 11:10 AM
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Site Team
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It sounds like you aren't wired properly. The fireplace should be on a seperate breaker, not part of the kitchen or island system. Also, unless you're using the fry pan in a strange spot, it should be on a GFI circuit.
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01-27-2019, 11:21 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by DQDick
It sounds like you aren't wired properly. The fireplace should be on a seperate breaker, not part of the kitchen or island system. Also, unless you're using the fry pan in a strange spot, it should be on a GFI circuit.
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Fry pan is on gfi circuit on island. Tv, fireplace and fry pan all go at once. If I plug vacuum in gfi tv and vacuum blow breaker too. Husband was going to put in a 20 amp breaker but dealer said you couldn’t wasn’t safe.
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01-27-2019, 01:21 PM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Jan 2018
Location: Thornville
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You have to many things on that one breaker. Amp draw is too high for that breaker. I would put the fireplace onto a different breaker, that should solve the issue.
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01-27-2019, 02:42 PM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: McKinney
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No surprise the fireplace and electric fry pan would trip a 15 amp breaker. But wire is probably not sized for a 20 amp breaker. Best solution would be to add a new breaker and reroute the wire of one of those to that new breaker. But may not be an easy task depending on how your current wiring is routed.
Less desirable option is to always turn off fireplace to use fry pan.
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01-27-2019, 06:10 PM
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Montana Fan
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Location: Holladay
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Take it back and get it fixed. Just like DQ said, it sounds like it is wired wrong. TV and fireplace should not be on the same GFI as the kitchen and bathroom.
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02-12-2019, 06:07 PM
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Seasoned Camper
Join Date: Nov 2011
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Fireplace should be on it's own 20 amp circuit.
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02-12-2019, 06:38 PM
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Montana Master
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Location: Minden - NV
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There is no separate breaker for the fireplace in my 2019. There's just no room is that small panel they put in trailers for extra circuits like installed in a typical home.
You could install a tandem breaker and pull a separate wire to the fireplace so it would have its own 15A or 20A circuit.
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02-13-2019, 08:15 AM
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Montana Master
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Quote:
Originally Posted by jetskier
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You could install a tandem breaker and pull a separate wire to the fireplace so it would have its own 15A or 20A circuit.
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My breaker panel has some spare spaces, and yet they used a couple of tandem breakers any way.
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Riley, our Golden
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02-13-2019, 01:38 PM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Oct 2012
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Even if you had a 20 amp circuit that went to both the fireplace and your kitchen GFI, you still would not be able to use both the fireplace and electric fry pan together. Your fry pan is probably drawing 1500 watts, and that is the same load as the fireplace. Together, 3,000 watts is 25 amps of load, and that is why they should have had the fireplace on it's own circuit of at least 15 amps. Maybe you can set up the fry pan on the table and plug it into a circuit not on the kitchen breaker, or just use the furnace when frying.
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02-13-2019, 04:45 PM
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Montana Fan
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Do not replace the breaker with a higher amp breaker. The wires aren't made for that much of a amp draw and will get hot and fire will result. Not sure how you can rewire the fireplace on a separate circuit with the wires inside the walls. You should ask your dealer to fix this. Fire place should have it's own circuit.
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