Just be wary of those.. they can and will cause lots of death and other negative effects to you and your body. I can only assume that the only way to not make those less scary is to remove the meter which I highly recommend not doing. just be careful.
The 60a breaker does not look like a shutoff for the panel. You can see the large power feed in cable going to the bus bar lugs at the top. There is wires that come from that breaker leading to something. If I was to guess the 60a is a supply to an electric range/stove.
yeah. I am trying to be super careful. Electricity is very dangerous and one mistake can cost your life. I generally only want to touch dead wires.
yeah its dumb. My house was build early 70s/late 60s and i guess that wasn't code then. On the panel, that 60 amp braker is labeled as main.
Yea could be, they're always hot from the street.. good thing you know that lol
yep he should lol
I'll do that later today, but like I said, the wires at top are always hot. Scary stuff. I honestly don't need too much more power than 60 amps anyways because there are appliances that I could use that are more power efficient. would be hard to add a dedicated EV circuit though. I think my service is technically a 100 amp service too.
Yea, the wires at the top are always hot on virtually every home.. at least in the USA
Almost makes me wonder why there isn't a recommendation for a switch before heading to the panel. But I guess that could increase fire risk because you have another connection being made on the main line. I don't know.
cuz the wires into that switch would always be hot too
I feel your pain!
My house Main panel has its own main shut off breaker, A MTS is before it that can be thrown to Off. A breaker before the Transfer switch and finally the power pole shut off breaker just after the meter. None of them run hot. Fire risk only increases with bad connections or constant draw at the limits of the design.
If i ever decide to get an EV, the most I could ever do is allow it to draw up to 20 amps with my current set up. not awful but not enough. I am not sure what my service connection is actually rated to be at the moment either. I assume its like 100 or 125 amps though.
just run a wire from 1 panel to the other one they both go in the screw terminals
Wait I thought that row of screws at the top was the ground/neutral connections. I have one of those screw things i can put in.
that looks similar to the one I have. My concern is in the main panel. I can't see how to make the connection into the main panel without potentially causing havoc. I don't know if its bad for ground wires to touch before getting into the grounding bars or not. I can see why it may be bad because its akin to a loose connection. my existing main panel is a birdsnest too and I am always concerned that it will become a problem at some point.
