drifting OT: 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"?

No, not at all. Reading comprehension problems?


Well, I don't know, Michelle.

Neither do I.

I don't live where you are. Why are

Why do you care about where anyone but the OP lives? That's OT.

you asking here for something that you should be consulting a local
professional for?

The OP DID that; reading comprehension problems again?


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?

It's your monitor! Get far, far away from it! And if the condition
doesn't improve within three months, see a PA or veterinary doc or
something; maybe a free clinic. Most will keep your diseases a secret
these days.

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 ... but ... that's what you did! Got reading
comprehension/projection problems too?
And, did you ASK any questions? Did you ask her for the numbers on her
meter? Did you ask for any info on the box? ALL things that anyone
could likely see and write down with a modicum of instruction. No, you
didn't. But you sure still had a hell of a lot to say with your
"recommendations".


But it does make for fun conversation.

No, it makes for a pretty stupid set of posts from you, which have now
been memorialized for all time in archives at Google and about a
thousand other such repositiories around the world for all to see now
and after your grand-children's children pass on. You should learn to
us x- lines if you dont' want to be recorded for all posterity.
And after that you could use some education. And interpersonal
skills. And real world knowledge and experience. And ...

Steve


You're wrong, because these groups are a great place for confirmation
and verification of information if nothing else. The majority of people
have answered based simply on the input given and nothing more, because
there WAS enough to make certain judgements on. Some others felt the
need to suggest spending huge amounts of money on service upgrades and
rewiring et al, and although those are options, there was nothing in the
OP to indicate that money was no problem; in fact, it seems it would
have been, or an electrician would have made different recommendations
than suggesting that the breaker was simply likely worn out, and
recommending a replacement. He could have gone for the big bucks first,
but he didn't, and if he's an actual electrician as many have pointed
out, he's doing the right thing by the OP. We don't know what else he
suggested as possible alternatives, but we do know he said the brkr
appeared faulty and that replacing it should put the OP back in business
again. Since it's his rep on the line, it's likely to be good advice.
OTOH, had the OP said the electrician had this 50A camper breaker
sitting in his truck, and between that and rewiring 3/4 of the house in
14 ga wire, he could fix her right up, well, there might have been a LOT
of responses that weren't nearly as agreeable here!
Verify and confirm; it can be a LOT of comfort to those wondering if
they have decent advice or not, and I believe the concensus presented
here, is the correct one.

And lastly, the OP wanted to know if a 90 vs a 100 amp brkr would be an
OK change? Which of course it is.

Flame back, whatever you like; I won't be answering you. I've vented
and had my mental entertainment now, so there's nothing left to say.

HTH, I really do.


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