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do heat presses trip switches in homes usually?

my son bought a heat press it worked for 2 weeks then our switches kept tripping another was sent and the same thing happened do they need more power than other appliances

anne
May 2010
There should be a Rating-Plate on the appliance showing the power in Watts - reach for your calculator and divide the watts by your household voltage - 230 in the UK and 115 in the US.

The answer will be the current the appliance draws - the breaker that trips may be supplying current (power) to the appliance and also other things also plugged into the same circuit - only you can check for this.

If the breaker that trips turns off all the power in the house then that's an earth leakage problem - an RCD breaker telling you about a potential safety issue.

You do not give enough information to provide a sensible answer - no make and model - no indication of which switches are tripping or their rating and no wattage of the pressing machine.

You may have had a defective presser but it's a bit unlikely that you have had two bad ones - there may be another defective appliance in the house - there may be a loose connection in the socket you plug the press into - two or more appliances together may be causing a combined current overload or a combined earth leakage.

I would guess that most steam press irons are rated 1kW to 2kW - not dissimilar to an electric kettle.

Good luck...

Peccavi
May 2010

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