Look at my electrical box and tell me whats up?

[mcdandc]

Originally Posted by headiez247

Moving into this new place. I'd like to hire a electrician to take a look but maybe you guys can tell me what the deal is going to be.

Its a 3 bedroom 2 bathroom place. Going to be running 1400 Watts plus fans and A/C.

Looks like a weird/badly labelled (?) setup. Is it possible for an electrician to just add more power power to the house without doing any additional wiring? If additional wiring is necessary, how much will it cost? This box is on the outside of the unit, and the room I'm doing this in is directly above it.

My advice would be to replace the 1" breakers with double units, then balance the loads out to allow new distribution. The overall load will be controlled by the 50 amp main.

[turborunner]

You can have an electrician put in higher amp circuts I did it when I moved in. Its not suspicious. They don't care what the power is for but even if some noisy guy asked say computers and A/C's or tell him to mind his own business. Whats he going to do go tell the cops hay billy just upgraded to 30 amp service lets kick his door in.

[headiez247]

Hey thanks for all the advice guys.

I think down the line when I have more funds that upgrading would be smart but for now here is what I've done.

The A/C is powered by a 20amp outlet in my bathroom downstairs that is shared with a microwave and thats it. All set there

The first 1k is powered by a 15 amp circuit with nothing else on it. All set there.

The second 1k and the 3 fans are on a 20 amp circuit that just has a TV on it in addition.

So pretty cool power wise for now but like I said I'd def. do the upgrade in the future.