If you have one of these older Murray / Crouse Hinds Breaker Panels . They have a design flaw which damages the main breakers requiring replacement

 Murray / Crouse Hinds  have made breaker panels for many years however  their  MP main line series panels  made in 80s and 90s have a serious design  problem with 150 amp and  200 amp Main breakers burning up or not turning back on after being turned off after being on for a long time 

The problem starts when the main breaker which is stabbed on instead of bolted on to the panels buss bar  becomes loose after heavy amperage draw thru it 

As you can see in the above picture the stab blades on the breaker are all burned up.

This leads to arcing and smoking and buzzing noises and eventually breaker failure and out go the lights .

Normally the damage is too bad to save panel as buss bar is also damaged and requires total replacement which runs into the thousands

If you have one of these panels have an electrician who has a thermal camera check to make sure your main breaker is not failing 

Luckily Murray has come out with a new line of panels which now have bolt on mains and this problem is eliminated

Upgrading to a New Electric car? Better figure a couple Thousand for a new Electrical Service Panel to be able to charge it.

 So you decided to get one of those new slick electric cars . 

you go to the dealership and they give you this small charger you plug into a wall outlet and  plug it into your car and find out it takes 24 hours to charge your car. 

 

That's entirely unreasonable so you go online and buy a faster charger and that's where the fun begins.  

These chargers draw 60 amps of power no big deal you think I will just hire local electrician pay him a few hundred dollars and he will wire it in. Wrong 

You only have a 100 amp electrical service panel and its already has an Air conditioning system on it 

 leaving no room to add the 60 amp car charger now what?

Well you are going to have to upgrade your electrical service to 200 amps  which can cost from $2500.00 to 5000.00 dollars to do so .

But no worries you do have a newer home and 200 amp service good to go right? maybe not you may have to upgrade as well depending what all is drawing on that 200 amp service especially if your hoe is all electric

So before you start deciding to buy that electric car or Hot tub for that matter  check to make sure your not going to have to put thousands more out of your pocket