Electrical System Upgrade
When you’ve had the last time to restore a circuit breaker in your house? Is it more than twenty years? Have you recently bought a house? Are you planning to buy a major appliance? Now is probably a good time to upgrade your home electrical system!
For owners, it is not just a matter of convenience, there are important security issues. According to the Fire Administration United States (USFA), each year, home electrical fires claim the lives of 485 Americans and 2305 wounded. Home electrical problems account for 67,800 fires and 868 million dollars in property damage.
Fires can be caused by electrical system failures, failure of equipment, improperly installed cables, misuse and poor maintenance of electrical appliances and extension cords and overloading.
Top Causes of Electrical Fires Home
1. Lack of electrical power. Today’s homes have a growing number of devices, including dry-power, water heaters, electric ranges and ovens, frost-free refrigerators, dishwashers and multimedia centers consume. In hot climates air conditioning leakage current widespread.
As you add devices to your home, then offering in May became insufficient. Each time you add a large device should allow you to check your electrical system by a qualified professional. Ignore the warning signs, such as fuses or circuit breakers trip or Sun light!
The main causes of insufficient power in your home:
• congestion
• The limited capacity of the service panel
• Insufficient number of outlets
• Transformers overtaxed
• Insufficient supply lines
Adding containers (or even worse, with extension) does not increase the available power. If you find that you are connecting to multiple devices in a single dose, increasing the power directly into the distribution box.
2. Obsolete equipment or systems. Thirty years ago domestic violence was much less, even in warm climates. The average new home requires 60 amps of electricity, which was connected to a screw in the fuse box fuses two blocks.
Ten years later, the average household requires 100 amps of electricity and circuit breakers are offered as standard equipment.
Today, the average new house is equipped with 200 amps of electricity services and a distribution panel handling up to fifteen breaker of 40 amps. The kitchen can provide containers with more than 60 amps can be mounted on countertop appliances only. Air conditioning or HVAC system is more energy than all the house 30 years ago.
If your house is twenty years old, chances are that it must be improved! Thirty years, the old distribution box in your basement or garage of the screw in fuses are a fire hazard with some certainty. Why? Over time, the deterioration of the contacts. The contact point between the bar and the base Buss Fuse or oxidized coal. With the increased flow of heat is generated, leading to failure or fire. Are in California, if a house with an electrical junction box, provided that the screws used in fuses, many insurance companies will not renew homeowners insurance.
If improving the electricity network in your home, you are sure you have the size reduced the probability of a devastating fire.