[jyl]

What is "in-rush"?

Is my idea stupid? Suppose I accidentally run too many appliances at once, thus trying to pull more than 60 A from the subpanel, I assume all that will happen is the main breaker will trip and my load of laundry won't get dried, load of dishes won't wash, etc. This sort of appliance doesn't normally get damaged from insufficient current/power cutoff, does it?

I wish my wife hadn't bought an electric dryer. We had a perfectly good gas Duet dryer but she just had to have a nice new one.