Ed Pawlowski wrote:
On 7/9/2017 9:28 PM, Lenny Jacobs wrote:
When a breaker is tripped, it's always the main breaker, not the
individual breaker. Shouldn't the individual breaker be tripped first?

This is troublesome because I then have to turn off all individual
breakers with the main breaker on and flip each breaker to see which
one causes the trouble.


What is the rating of the main breaker? What is the load? if the
main is 100 and you have a bunch of 20A breakers pulling 15A the group
would trip the main.

Note, in case you are possibly unaware of this, that you want to count
on how many amps are being accounted for by CB'ers on each side (or ones
using both sides (poles?) ).


You should do some analysis to see if you are overloading the panel.
If you added Central AC, larger water heater,dryer, electric range,
they may not be a problem individually but together, too much for the
main.