Why must circuit breaker be hooked in series with a line of appliance even though the line of appliances are hooked together in parallel?
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Generally major appliances in the US have their own circuit breaker. Oven/stove, refrigerator, heating and air, dishwasher and washer and dryer. Then outlets have breakers. You do this for several reason. The main one being if there is a problem with the electricity to or from that appliances it doesn’t effect the other ones. Also some, often the dryer and stove will be on 220 lines so that can’t be parallel with other appliances.
Not sure of the reason but in the 60’s it seemed like fuses burned out with more regularity that breakers get tripped today.
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