Is it safe to plug a refrigerator and a chest freezer in to the same outlet?
The pantry in my new apartment has some wasted space and I'm thinking that it'd be nice to put a chest freezer (5.0 cubic feet) there. The predicament is that there is only one standard outlet nearby, and it is the same outlet that the refrigerator is
Is it sound? Yes. The recepticle and the wiring it's connected to should be protected by a current limiting mechanism such as a fuse or a breaker. This will prevent the wire from overheating assuming the breaker is the own size and everything is properly
