Hey all you sparkies,
I was looking in my service panel the other day, just to make sure I have enough spaces to add more breakers. Something occurred to me that might be on the order of, “I can’t be out of money! I still have checks!”
If I have 200 Amp service, how can I have over 500 Amps worth of breakers in my panel?
I know that everything doesn’t operate at the same time, but it could.
NCtim (scratching my head)
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if you're gonna be adding breakers, then you will have more than 500 amps......:>) .. your main would trip at 200 anyway,
and since every circuit needs to have overcurrent protection the required breakers can add up, but that 500 number is basically useless