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"?

Within the 100 year bell curve.


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?

Well, if you haven't been running around on your wife then I suggest you
start by shooting her. BTW, free medical in the pokey.


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



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