Changing out a fuse box

Metspitzer · 2011-05-30T21:50:19+00:00

Do they make a circuit breaker panel that will mount in an old fusebox? I have a friend that wants to get an old house ready to rent.The house is small but it is really nice. Here are two pictures ofthe fuse box. It has a GE cover that is listed at 150A. The boxmeasures 14.5 by 24 by 3.75. No markings on the service entrancecable that tells what size the wire is.He wants to just remove the old guts and update it to circuitbreakers. The bottom left fuse block is hot on both sides even withthe fuses removed. In the extreme lower left there is a fuse blockthat is not being used.Since he is an old friend, I offered to have a look at it for him,but I really don't know what to tell him short of tearing the housedown and start from scratch. I know that is not what he wants tohear. The insulation on the wire looks so brittle I don't want totouch it. The house is in rural Georgia.O'Neil to General Hammond:For the record Sir, I wanted to blow it the hell up.

May 30, 2011 40 Replies

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gfretwell 15 years ago

That is what makes them 100a fuses, a real copper penny is 200a ;-)

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