On May 31, 5:33*am, mike wrote:
On 5/30/2013 11:22 PM, Guv Bob wrote:

And it gets worse. Back in '72 when the house was built, they put the
service entrance/meter on the side of the garage and ran a wire thru
the attic and down the wall to the breaker box where resides the first
place there's any current limiting.

You know it might be a good idea to have a couple of licensed electricians stop by separately and give you their opinion about this.

Second opinion is not required. *The system sucks.

Back in the day, the whole city was done this way.
There really is no service disconnect. *You have to pull the meter
to disconnect the power.

I've got five breakers hooked directly to the grid.
And a bunch of breakers downstream of one (pair) of them for
the circuits/outlets in the house.

AFAIK, the first current limit is on the other side of the
utility transformer.

replace the meter can with one that includes a main breaker....