James

I got a call from my tenants that they kept tripping a 20A breaker that was running the kitchen outlets every time they fired up their microwave. I figured it could possibly be a bad breaker so pulled the panel cover and noticed that the breaker in question had two 12 gauge wires hooked to it. I ended up putting in another 20A breaker and ran it so that each 12 gauge wire was on it's own 20A breaker. What I did was fair game is it not? Not sure why they would run two circuits on one breaker, I did have to call the electricians in shortly after they put the panel in because one of the kitchen outlets had no power (the microwave outlet.) Is it possible they just hooked the extra 12 gauge wire into the closest 20A breaker and called it a day? That's all I could think of, but you'd think an electrician would do it right the first time. Not sure just looking for input.

My A/C is hooked up through my furnace. When my thermostat is set higher than actual temp in my house, the furnace fan keeps kicking on and off (The A/C unit remains off) about every 10 minutes and I have no clue why. When the thermostat is set lower, it is a crap shoot if the A/C will kick on or not, but the furnace fan will run either way, it just won't cool if the A/C doesn't kick on so it runs indefinitely. What is going on? My fan is set to auto, and my thermostat is set to cool, not heat. I just changed my furnace filter today, nothing doing.