# Window air conditioners and circuit breakers

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/window-air-conditioners-and-circuit-breakers/589910>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 21, 2011, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/window-air-conditioners-and-circuit-breakers/589910 "2011-07-21T22:31:54Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Author:** ![thelabdude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dc4da7/32.png) [@thelabdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelabdude)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2011, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/window-air-conditioners-and-circuit-breakers/589910/21 "2011-07-27T20:04:08Z")

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Back in the 60’s, we lived in Detroit. We could take our light bulbs to Detroit Edison’s office and exchange them for new. I would be very surprised to hear you still can.

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