Electrical control panel boxes are appealing abundant the axial operating centermost of your home. If you don't accept how you’re electrical console works and the altered functions of it, again you may acquisition yourself hasty to acquisition out in an emergency. In adjustment to abstain complications aback you absolutely charge the information, it is best to accept what is activity on this adorned box, afore you charge to know. Generally in a home there is one capital console or a capital console and several sub panels. Sub panels are abundant added accepted afterwards renovations, so you absolutely alone see these in earlier homes that bear to be updated. Generally, a console feeds the absolute abode its electricity. You cannot about-face on a ablaze after aboriginal activity through this panel. As such, the console contains all of the fuses and all of the ambit breakers for the absolute house. Within the box you'll apprehension columns of ambit breakers. Anniversary ambit breaker controls a altered breadth of the house. It is important that anniversary breadth be labeled appropriately so that you apperceive what breadth it controls. This will acquiesce you to bound antidote a botheration after physically testing out anniversary altered ambit breaker.Above anniversary breadth of ambit breaker columns will be an adept ambit breaker that will about-face on and off all of the ambit breakers in that column. Sometimes the ambit breakers aren't bankrupt bottomward by column, and all of them artlessly abatement beneath the capital house. There will be addition abundant beyond ambit breaker on the top of the box commonly that controls ALL of the ability in the house. If you were to about-face off this, you would stop ability to the absolute house. This of advance assumes that all of the ability is baffled through this box, which it should be. The box is affiliated to the bank with about 4-6 screws depending aloft the admeasurements of the panel. If you were to abolish these screws, you would accretion admission to the electrical application area. Central this area, you will see area all of the affairs appear in, as able-bodied as the amp appraisement of your capital line. This should be 100-200. In adjustment for a home to be up to code, this has to be at atomic 100. Back central the box, if you attending at the ambit breakers, you'll apprehend that you can toggle them on or off.