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.

It's hard to imagine such a thing could have been installed and
passed inspection in 72. What kind of breaker panel is this
that has no main disconnect breaker?






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