What to Look for in the Breaker Box Unless your home is very old and has never had its electrical service updated, it has 240-volt service from the street and into the main electrical panel as well.

Circuit breakers came into vogue around the 1940s and have become more or less the standard for electrical safety in all buildings. If you open up the electrical box in your home and see a bunch ...

Everything you need to know about the point of entry for a home's electricity, from an electric panel breakdown to how to hook solar panels into your home's power system.

Today, circuit breakers are used in homes instead of fuses. The main reason is because a circuit breaker can be re-used. Once a fuse blows, it has to be replaced. Old electric services will have ...

In some cases, you can replace a faulty part in the electrical panel rather than needing to replace the whole thing. Circuit breaker switches are typically the cheapest to replace, while subpanels ...

Leviton’s new Smart Circuit Breakers install in the load center the same as in regular electrical panels. Each Smart Circuit Breakers also connects to the internet via a wireless or Ethernet ...

These each require a huge breaker and, on dumb panels, eat into those allotted 200A. Span helps manage these pieces of technology as well.

Circuit breakers are one of the components inside the main electrical service panel inside your home — some people refer to it as a breaker box. The purpose of a circuit breaker is to shut off ...

Promising to bring your breaker box into the 21st century, Leviton introduced a new Wi-Fi-enabled load center this week at this year's NAHB International Builders' Show in Las Vegas.