Re: any electrician out there?


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The main circuit breaker on the side, at the outside out my house is
overheating and trips. All electricity inside the house gets turned
off when this hapens. It tends to happen whenever I use the AC on a
hot day. The electrician says that this 90 AMP main circuit breaker
needs to be replaced. The problem is that he says that they don't
make these 90 AMP circuit breakers anymore. They only have them in
100 AMP. He says it's safe to go up from 90 to 100 AMP.

Is this safe to do at my house? Your suggestions/advice would be
greatly appreciated.

First, if your house has a 90 amp service, it must be old. Therefore,
it is from a time before we had toasters, microwaves, and all the gobs
of goodies everyone plugs into the wall sockets.

If you want to just save and use your 90 amp panel, you need to go
through, and throw out about half your "stuff", as you don't have
enough electricity to run it all. You could do that, and many people
do when it costs too much to upgrade, or they like a simpler
lifestyle, or, say at a cabin where service is limited. Or, you can
just run certain things at certain times, remembering not to use the
microwave when the AC is on, etc, etc, etc, but that is a pain, and
something always ends up overloaded.

If you want to upgrade, you will have to run much more than a panel.
Sure you could put in a 200 amp panel, or a 400 or a 12,000. But from
there, the wires have to take it all over the house, and there again
is where you are weak. You'll need to upgrade all through the house,
add outlets, add heavier wire, etc.

Whatever you do, have a licensed electrical company do it, don't cheap
out, and wire for the future. You're betting your house on it.

Steve

Steve, not to be argumentative, but you don't have a shred of
information to determine what you've written. There are bazillions of
houses with 100 amp services, that have every modern convenience and
plenty of electricity to power them

Sorry, just responding to what Michelle wrote, which were just shreds in
the first place.

And yes, there are lots of 100 amp services out there just chugging
along. But we weren't talking about upgrading them to higher numbers,
were we? And there are even limits to how many things can be plugged
into a 100 amp service. But then, that 100 amp rating is limited to
70-80% of capacity from the get go.

But you knew all that, right?

Steve

You can plug an awful lot of things into a 100 amp service, and no, it's
not limited to 70 -80% of capacity

Correct. Just keep plugging things in until it goes dark or lights up the
whole neighborhood.

Michelle has written in with a question that is similar to: "What's the
weather like"?

Well, I don't know, Michelle. I don't live where you are. Why are you
asking here for something that you should be consulting a local
professional for?

I have these sores around my ..... well ...... you know .............
Yesterday, my fingers started falling off. I'm down to eyesight in one
eye.

What should I do?

Doesn't make a lot of sense for someone to be writing in here in vague
terms asking about things they really need to find out themselves where
they live.

But it does make for fun conversation.

Steve

From what I read, Michelle questioned if it was safe and legal to replace a
defective 90 amp main breaker with a 100 amp main breaker, as was
recommended by the electrician she hired. I don't see the ambiguity




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