Electrical Panel Upgrade & Replacement

Does your Home still have an old-style fuse panel? Are circuits overloaded? Have circuits been “doubled-up?” Has new wiring been added over the years, and does it meet code? Has your Insurance Company refused to renew your home insurance policy? Your home may be in need of an electrical panel upgrade.

The customer in this video called Captain Electric because the lights were flickering in the house. He later discovered that the Fuse Block was burning up. How did we fix this? Once the panel is shown to be damaged, it needs to be replaced. We installed a brand new Electrical Panel with Circuit Breakers instead of Fuses.

Modern Electrical Panels are more convenient and are built to far higher safety standards than outdated fuse panels. Extra protection is incorporated into the latest equipment in the form of circuit breakers.

These circuit breakers protect every device in the house with sensitive circuitry that responds quickly if there is a fault, opening the circuit and eliminating the risk of danger.

Better Protection for your Home

There is also excellent protection available in the form of Ground-Fault Circuit Breakers and Arc-Fault Circuit Breakers.

When you replace your older outdated fuse panel with a modern electrical panel with circuit breakers, this will allow installation of GFCI (Ground-fault), AFCI (Arc-fault) Protection and Surge Protection right at the electrical panel. This will provide you with the very best in circuit protection, for your safety, comfort, security, and peace of mind.

Older equipment and wiring systems did not have to support the modern appliances of our day. Overloading and doubling up of circuits is commonly seen on older outdated fuse panels, the result of improper installations that were never inspected. This can cause fires.

Upgrading the source of power distribution to your home by installing a new Electrical Panel box, can eliminate this potentially dangerous situation.

Benefits of an Electrical Panel Upgrade

• Reduce the chance of an electrical fire.
• Eliminate doubled-up circuits.
• Eliminate the need to replace fuses, or the chance to install the wrong size of fuse, which is a common fire hazard.
• Capacity to add additional circuits in the future.
• Increase Ampacity. More power available with a 200 amp panel will allow adding a hot tub and/or an electric car charger.
• Increase the resale value of your home.

Don’t compromise on safety

First, have your system inspected by one of our highly qualified technicians.
He will help you to decide on whether you should have your outdated fuse panel replaced with a modern Electrical Panel.

Call Captain Electric today to schedule an appointment.