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air conditioner?

jstroud — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 21:32:14 +0000

we have a window unit, and never really had trouble with it before, but now it seems it keeps blowing the fuse in our fuse box, is this because its 96 degrees outside and everyone has their air on full blast? can we change the fuse from a 15 amp one to a 20 amp one and fix the problem? or is it the window unit? we have lived here 3 years and never had this problem before, my man is uselss with this sort of thing but its so hot outside and i need to fix this, because he doesn’t seem to care. i dont know if it makes a difference but we are living in a house. please help!! im burin up in here!

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