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Panelboards, also known as "electrical panels", "circuit breaker panels", "fuse boxes", "distribution boards", "consumer units", or "load centers". Remember to provide your location. Include photographs of the existing equipment or plans. Questions about individual overcurrent devices (breakers or fuses) should use the [circuit-breaker] tag.
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Any potential problems with re-numbering electrical panel?
The accepted practice in most of the USA is to number the breaker slots. We number them odd on the left and even on the right from top to bottom. A two-pole breaker takes up two slots and therefore tw …
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Is 14.2 acceptable for an electric baseboard?
You can't series the two together. They would have to be paralleled. But maybe that is what you meant. They would be imbalanced and not work properly if wired in series.
And then the 1500 watts woul …
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Does a 125 AMP panel require a heavier supply cable than a 100 AMP panel?
My questions:
Does going from a 100 AMP to a 125 AMP panel require any change in the gauge of the wire coming from the meter?
If you have a 125 amp breaker you need 125 amp wire. See the table here. …
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30 amp 110 breaker
My question is this: Can I run this motor on the current 20 amp (110) or is there just no way?
Does anyone have an ideas?
Short answer: No
The motor leads in the connection box on the saw need to be …
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Do I need common trip breakers for a house wired with shared neutrals?
The National Electrical Code requires simultaneous disconnection of multiwire branch circuit ungrounded conductors.
It does NOT require common trip breakers.
Here are the pertinent articles:
210.4(B) …
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Breaker in circuit panel doesn't appear to do anything?
Could there be simply an unused breaker in the panel? If it's unused, why wouldn't the electrician just leave the blank piece of metal there instead?
Yes sometimes spare breakers are inserted as …
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How to distribute power better across two breaker panels
Motorized appliances (air conditioning, well pump, refrigerator) and laser printers both draw large amounts of startup current. They are essentially a dead short across the line for the first few mill …
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Electric panel radiator won't turn on but it is warm where the gauge is
Without the manual I can't tell but my guess is the green tab sets the turn on temperature and the red stop is the turn off temperature.
Set the green up to 25°C and see what happens. Set the red wh …
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Why doesn't my electrical service panel have a main disconnect breaker?
This isn't a "split bus" panel.
It is a standard "Main Lug Only" panel that is illegal to use as a main panel. It can be used as a sub-panel but not as the main.
See if you can find a main breaker a …
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Can I add another ground bar to my old Crouse-Hinds main panel?
This appears to be quite an old panel. This one was manufactured with a single ground / neutral bar. I can't see in your photo, but if it is mounted on an insulating material there should be a green s …
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400A PV Meter/Main as 200A
You said “ This means I'll be soaking up the ridiculous cost of a 400A meter/main to over come the 125% rule.”
This rule is only for back-feeding an existing panel through a breaker and I think it is …
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20amp Breaker Tripping on Startup of a 10amp Motor
Motor load circuits are treated differently by the National Electrical Code because of the startup current required by the motor.
Motor branch circuit short circuit protection is sized based on the na …
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200 amp panel box with some circuits not working
Wow! You got some mobile home with a 200 amp service.
The code says:
II. Mobile and Manufactured Homes
550.10 Power Supply.
(A) Feeder. The power supply to the mobile home shall be a feeder assembly …
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Can multiple panelboard interior/cabinet combos or loadcenters be chained together to form a...
Am I correct that Code allows you to use sufficiently sized feed-through or sub-feed lugs and wiring to "daisy chain" as many panelboard interiors together as you wish to make a single super-panelboa …
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Can I ground junction box directly to panel?
Here are some pertinent articles of the National Electrical Code:
314.4 Metal Boxes. Metal boxes shall be grounded and bonded in accordance with Parts I, IV, V, VI, VII, and X of Arti‐ cle 250 as ap …
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