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The main question when looking at your house panel or electrical service panel and breakers is to ask how safe is it? and how well functioning every breaker is?<\/p>\n

Why is the panel well-functioning so important to overall electrical safety?<\/p>\n

Read more about electrical panel here:\u00a0Understanding Electric Panels & Overview of Residential Electrical Panels<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Because safety and security of your electrical wiring system is mostly determined by your electrical panel, and your electrical breakers, which act like your house defence system in case of any electrical fault or short circuit.<\/p>\n

How this process work? Your breakers amperage and voltage size for each branch circuits are identified based on your wires size (AWG) for that branch circuit.<\/p>\n

And if any current higher than what breaker and wire is rated for, flow on that circuit will activate overcurrent mechanism inside the breaker and this mechanism is responsible to disconnect the circuit to protect wiring and electrical devices and equipment on that branch circuit and in case of higher amperage short circuit which cause over current or higher voltage short circuit the main system breaker which is usually double pole breaker will tripe to protect everything on that \u00a0system.<\/p>\n

All new house in Canada have 100-ampere 220-volt main electrical panel, with functioning and well protecting circuit breakers, some old houses have 60 Ampere Or 70 Ampere Main panel with old breakers, which usually are required by insurance company to be upgraded to 100 Ampere And there are homes that require, 150 Amp, 200 Amp, 250 Amp or even higher amperage depending on size of house and number of electrical devices and equipment.<\/p>\n

The main defining factors in every residential house are building size, electrical range, electrical dryer, A\/C, Hot tub and for commercial building again is the size of the building and type of usage and machinery inside the building.<\/p>\n

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Can Electric Ltd<\/a><\/span>, can do an exact electrical Load calculation for your house according to Canadian Electrical Code, when requested or if you need any type of electrical upgrade.<\/p>\n

And to do electrical upgrades, first step is to get permit from local electrical code enforcing authority and the second step is to contact local utility company to arrange for an electrical disconnect and reconnect time and date, and in most case of electrical service upgrade, the work to upgrade, power disconnect and reconnect and electrical inspection is done in same day.<\/p>\n

You might need temporary power for duration of disconnect, you can rent an electrical generator or bring in power from neighbor.<\/p>\n

What are two different types of electrical services in the house? The electrical house service can be underground or overhead. Most of new developments have underground electrical services. The main electrical service for residential units is usually overhead service for units build in 1980 or older and the residential development in years after 1980 usually have underground electrical service.<\/p>\n

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Electrical System<\/span><\/h2>\n