Home Service Panel

Behind the panel door.

Home service panel. For most homes a 100 amp main is sufficient to handle all electrical needs. With the door open you can access all the circuit breakers in the panel. It s the steel box that holds your home s circuit breakers. When needed the circuit breakers turn off or trip the circuits that carry power throughout your home.

The maximum amperage that a service panel may deliver at one time is marked on the main breaker. If you don t see a control panel option your start menu may be set to classic or the link may have been disabled. Wires feed an electric meter and quite often a disconnect before entering your home s electrical panel this panel may be a fuse panel or a circuit breaker panel these panels have certainly changed over the years either way its job is to protect the home s wiring from overload via either fuses or circuit breakers. The main service panel is usually a gray metal box located somewhere along the inside surface of an exterior wall.

A service panel is a steel box with a hinged door or lift up panel on the front. Electrical panels go by many names. Homes built between 1950 and 1965 may have these 60 ampere fuse boxes often with four fuses. All of your home s power is located in the service panel.

Your home is powered from the electric company via the service entrance. To size your electrical service look at the main components of your house s electrical distribution system the wire the conduit the meter the panel and the main breaker to identify which. Breaker panels load centers service panels or breaker boxes. The electrical service panel provides 100 200 or more amps of power to a home.

Windows 7 or vista. Commonly these service panels are located in utility rooms garages or basements. The main service panel is the distribution center that splits the main electrical service into individual branch circuits that run through your home to power the lights outlets and individual appliances. The electrical service panel commonly known these days as a breaker box has come a long way since the early 1900s almost every home has some type of service panel whether it be a fuse panel or a circuit breaker panel.

If you don t see control panel listed the link may have been disabled as part of a start menu customization. However many new home builders now install 150 amp or 200 amp services to ensure plenty of capacity.