Thread: Breaker panel
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Old 10-06-2013, 10:30 AM   #2
Bob Landry
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You can not simply upsize a breaker to get more power capabilities. Even though the breaker and wire may feel fine, Upsizing the breaker would give you the possibility of drawing current that the wire would not handle. Your post is also a little confusing as you should not have a dual 20A main breaker on a 50A service. If all is correctly wired, you would have a double pole 50A breaker with smaller breakers for branch circuits. I can not see any reason why you would overload on a properly set up 50A service. If this is a sub panel, then it is probably wired with 12g a wire which is only rated for 20A.
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