Main Power Panel

The electrical service panel provides 100 200 or more amps of power to a home.

Main power panel.

In the event of a fire the separate disconnect at a meter lets firefighters cut the power without entering the buidling. Power comes into the house from a service drop connects to the service lugs within the service panel and is split into separate circuits throughout the house. In most contemporary systems this device is a circuit breaker or simply breaker. The main breaker is used to turn power to all the branch circuits on or off at the same time.

Your electrical meter box mounted onto your outdoor main breaker panel or inside a wall collaborates with the load center to safely distribute the correct amount of electricity to every room and. A distribution board also known as panelboard breaker panel or electric panel is a component of an electricity supply system that divides an electrical power feed into subsidiary circuits while providing a protective fuse or circuit breaker for each circuit in a common enclosure normally a main switch and in recent boards one or more residual current devices rcd or residual current. The electrician now bends the two black service wires for easy connection to the main breaker. Power comes from the utility service lines flows through the electrical meter on the outside of your house and continues into the service panel.

It will control all the power entering the home and connects to both hot bus bars running down vertically through the panel. However some systems include a separate disconnect switch between the meter and the panel. The main breaker or main fuse does not shut off the power to the incoming service lines from the utility or the connections where those lines meet the main breaker or fuse inside the service panel. It holds separate circuit breakers from the main breaker panel.

In most panels the main breaker is a large 240 volt circuit breaker that is located at the top of the panel. Homes built between 1950 and 1965 may have these 60 ampere fuse boxes often with four fuses. The lines remain live carrying deadly levels of electrical current unless the utility company shuts them off. This type of electrical panel requires a separate disconnect.

The main service panel is usually a gray metal box located somewhere along the inside surface of an exterior wall. The main panel also includes some type of mechanical device for disconnecting the house s electrical circuits from the incoming power.