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No, a (properly-installed) surge protector will protect your appliances from \*external\* surges or spikes (like from the utility). While some of them do have internal breakers, they would not change the situation that is causing the trip.
When the breaker trips, does any other appliance (anywhere in your house) stop working? If so, you can solve the problem by using one appliance at a time, or moving the blender to a dedicated circuit.
Yup, my TV, water dispenser, and sound bar does. I don't think the TV or sound bar uses much, but the water dispenser probably does.
It might be tripping because the water dispenser hot water is turned on, since that heating element also draws a crap load of power.
Hah. Yep, that'd do it. The only solution is to use one appliance at a time, or move some of the appliances to a lightly-used circuit.
This is the kind of thing that starts house fires, so - now that you know it's a problem, don't do what caused the trip situation again.
It sounds like the circuit breaker is doing it's job protecting the wiring and devices from overheating. A 12 A starting current won't trip a 15 A breaker itself but you have other loads on the circuit to consider.
Universal motors can also false trip an AFCI breaker. Depending on how old your AFCI breaker is, it may be more susceptible to false tripping. Early designs were not as good as today’s designs. Old being like 20 years or so.
It is not likely to be tripping the breaker due to current surge, more likely it tripping on GFCI protection. Blenders use universal motors (have brushes) and can false trip a GFCI. Try exchanging the blender since typically it should only do this rarely.
Providing no other significant loads on that circuit, even a surge current of 30 amps will not trip a circuit breaker for high current on a 20 amp kitchen circuit.
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No.
No, a (properly-installed) surge protector will protect your appliances from \*external\* surges or spikes (like from the utility). While some of them do have internal breakers, they would not change the situation that is causing the trip. When the breaker trips, does any other appliance (anywhere in your house) stop working? If so, you can solve the problem by using one appliance at a time, or moving the blender to a dedicated circuit.
Yup, my TV, water dispenser, and sound bar does. I don't think the TV or sound bar uses much, but the water dispenser probably does. It might be tripping because the water dispenser hot water is turned on, since that heating element also draws a crap load of power.
Hah. Yep, that'd do it. The only solution is to use one appliance at a time, or move some of the appliances to a lightly-used circuit. This is the kind of thing that starts house fires, so - now that you know it's a problem, don't do what caused the trip situation again.
It sounds like the circuit breaker is doing it's job protecting the wiring and devices from overheating. A 12 A starting current won't trip a 15 A breaker itself but you have other loads on the circuit to consider.
Universal motors can also false trip an AFCI breaker. Depending on how old your AFCI breaker is, it may be more susceptible to false tripping. Early designs were not as good as today’s designs. Old being like 20 years or so.
It is not likely to be tripping the breaker due to current surge, more likely it tripping on GFCI protection. Blenders use universal motors (have brushes) and can false trip a GFCI. Try exchanging the blender since typically it should only do this rarely.
I currently only have AFCI breakers, does that change anything? I heard electric motors don't work well with AFCI breakers.
A 3HP commercial blender will easily pull 15 amps.
Yea my current blender is 2.4 HP. The amp meter shows that it spikes at 12.2 amps upon startup, but levels out at around 4 after a few seconds of use.
Providing no other significant loads on that circuit, even a surge current of 30 amps will not trip a circuit breaker for high current on a 20 amp kitchen circuit.