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Identify Current Breaker and Panel Specifications

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Customer Needs a 125 AMP Circuit Breaker Upgraded to 150 AMP, But Breakers are different, Thoughts?

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What happens here

The electrician identifies the existing electrical infrastructure. He points to the current circuit breaker that needs upgrading, confirming it is a 125 Amp Siemens breaker within an 800 Amp main distribution panel. This provides the baseline information for the upgrade project.

Goal: Determine the specifications of the existing circuit breaker and the main electrical panel.

Tools and materials

  • 125 Amp Circuit Breaker Siemens — The existing circuit breaker to be upgraded
  • Commercial Electrical Panel — The main distribution panel housing the circuit breakers

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All right, guys. So, we're on a service call. Now, here's the problem. And if you go over here, the customer called and said that they got to upgrade their circuit breaker for a new rooftop air conditioning. So, you can see right here, this is the current breaker. It's 125 amps. This is an 800 amp panel. And they need to upgrade this to 150 amps. Now, here's the problem. Now, this is a 150 amp breaker on the bottom right here. And this is 125 amps. They're different sizes. So, we got to make sure and troubleshoot how we're going to get

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