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  • Oct 11, 2012, 12:30 AM
    martin123456
    Breaker box
    My main beaker in my box is 200 can I go over that
  • Oct 11, 2012, 02:29 AM
    tkrussell
    Sure providing you have a larger service entrance conduit, wire ,meter etc.
  • Oct 13, 2012, 01:45 PM
    shuntripper
    Sure, airplanes do all the time
  • Oct 18, 2012, 10:38 PM
    jefferson17
    Sure but the service wire coming into your house from the street is probably only rated for 200 amps. So you'd need to replace your service with something bigger than 200.

    Or... add a new service and panel. Do you REALLY need more than 200 amps? What's going on?
  • Oct 19, 2012, 05:04 AM
    mike 165278
    What do you mean? If you mean can the sum of all the breakers in the panel exceed 200 amps? Then yes. You can have say, 300 amps worth of breakers because it's unlikely you will have a full load on all circuits at the same time.
  • Oct 19, 2012, 11:34 AM
    tkrussell
    Adding the sum of the ratings of circuit breakers in any panel is meaningless and irrelevant.

    Performing the appropriate load calculation listed in Article 220 of the NEC is the only method of calculating a service size.
  • Oct 19, 2012, 11:37 AM
    mike 165278
    I agree, but I think that is what the OP is doing. He needs to do a load calc.

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