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What is the minimum size breaker panel for a home's main service?
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What is the minimum size breaker panel required for a homes main service?
50 amps
How do you find out how big your main breaker box is?
Simple. Your main electrical panel will have a "main breaker". This will be a two pole breaker, usually at the top of the panel. It will have a number on the breaker "handle" such as 150 or 200. This is the maximum number of amps your panel can supply. Most newer homes, 1975 and newer have a 200 amp service.
What is installing a circuit breaker?
It is inserting a breaker into a service panel.
Where is circuit breaker?
In home installations, the breakers will be found in the service distribution panel. In some homes this distribution is found in the basement. In ranch type homes, slab on grade, the distribution panel will be found in the utility room that houses the washer and dryer.
What is the minimum size breaker panel for a home?
In North America the smallest size breaker found in a home distribution panel is rated at 15 amps
What is an service panel?
The place where the power drop from the electric company enters your house. The service panel is where the fuses or breaker switches are.
How do you tell the meter amperage of your homes electric meter?
Your main breaker should tell you the amps of your panel.
What is the smallest size circuit breaker found in the normal home?
The biggest circuit breaker in any home is the main breaker located in your main breaker panel that is installed where your electrical service cable comes into your home.
Where does power come into most homes?
It comes into the home from the electrical grid. It enters the home through a meter base and is fed into the service panel. This panel routes the electricity to each circuit in the home. Each circuit is protected by a breaker designed to trip and shut off power if the circuit becomes overloaded or there is a short in the circuit. A typical home will have a 200 amp service containing 40-42 separate breaker locations and one main breaker that shuts off power to the entire home.
Breaker box is full?
You have two options, one is a complete service change. The average house service these days is 200 amps 42 circuits. The second option is to install a sub panel off the existing service. Depending on how many circuits you need will govern the size the sub panel. Here is where it gets tricky. Two side by side single pole breakers or one two pole breaker will have to be removed from the original service panel and replaced with a new two pole breaker. The size of this breaker will be governed by the total load of the new sub panel. The wire from the new sub panel to the two pole breaker is also governed by the load of the sub panel. As an electrician I would recommend that you not do it yourself but get a qualified electrician to do it for you. He would (should) take a permit out for the job and get it inspected.
What type panel does a 4 pole breaker require?
The panel and breaker have to be of the same manufacturer. This way the breaker will fit into the panel. If the panel has a push in bus bar, the breaker must also be the type to accept the bus bar. If the bus bars in the panel are of the bolt in type then the breaker also has to be a bolt in breaker.
Where is the proper location for a main breaker in a panel?
Normally the main is on the top but you can install a service panel with the main on the bottom unless local codes prohibit it.
