2007-03-18 06:10:26 · 9 answers · asked by mdoughboyz1 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Maintenance & Repairs
No it does not, you only have 100 amps available per circuit. The other answers that state you have 200 amps in this scenario are incorrect and they do not know anything about electricity.
I'm not sure what you mean by two 100 amp breakers tandemed together.
I believe that you have a 2-pole 100 amp breaker. This means that you have 100 amps of current available at 240 volts.
To determine if you have a 200 amp service, you need to go look at the size of your main breaker. This is either going to be located outside in the meter main or at the top of your main breaker box. Whatever size main breaker you have is what size electrical service you have (e.g. 200 amp breaker is a 200 amp service, 150 amp breaker is a 150 amp service, etc.)
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2007-03-18 07:37:59 · answer #1 · answered by gilchristelectric 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
USA I am not sure what you mean by tandumed together - might you mean the handles are tied together? You probably only have a 100 amp service. If the breakers state 100 amp, that is it, you only have 100 amps.
If you need 200 amps, call a licensed electrician. If you have size 3/0 copper or 4/0 aluminum conductors feeding the panel from the meter, then you have the capacity to easily upgrade your circuit breaker panel to a 200 amp panel. If the conductors are smaller than that, which I suspect they are, then all you have is a 100 amp service which would need to be replaced in its entirety to provide 200 amp capacity.
2007-03-18 12:11:52 · answer #2 · answered by Dave 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
100 Amp Breakers
2016-12-12 09:51:06 · answer #3 · answered by vaibahv 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I lived in a house with a similar situation. If you flipped one of the 100 amp breakers, half of the house went out. This means you have 100 amp service but have an individual breaker for each incoming lead.
2007-03-18 07:55:01 · answer #4 · answered by Ben D 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you have two 100 amp breakers in tandum at the head of your panel, yes, you will have a 200 amp service if you have 200 amps going in from your utility pole. Years ago tandom breakers had dual switches usually because of adding sub-panels for only 120 voltage needs. It was found later that this adds potential dangers for overloading one side of a 240 amp circuit which could result in a fire.
Sub-panels should be taken below the main breaker and consideration of load balance must still be maintained. Main breakers now are in tandum but have a single switching lever. Industrial applications may, and often do, vary this principal. If you have two switch levers on a tandum breaker you must join them with a metal connector made for this purpose to avoid a potential overload should one of the two switches fail which in turn could cause a fire. If one switch should fail..........BOTH SWITCHES MUST FAIL AT THE SAME TIME...!
2007-03-18 06:30:07 · answer #5 · answered by farplaces 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
The physical size of the cable matters only in how much current it can carry. If your 200A leads fit into the 100A main breaker lugs without trimming you will be fine. There are _NO_ safety issue and _NO_ code issues as long as you use the correct fittings and do not trim the leads to fit into the breaker. The best analogy is if you were using 20-gauge wire into a 15A breaker. As to whether it will work or not - it will work just fine. At the same time you are wasting the capacity of the service - which will be there if you need it in the future.
2016-03-18 05:11:33 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
100amps is 100amps!!!!!
you have to have 200amp service to have 200amps!!!!!!!!!!
you can on 100amps though; be able to run more than 100amps off the service if distributed properly as most brakerpanels do today.
if you put 100amp breaker on oneside of the box & one on the other, you get 220 service to the appliance.
but you must have the service to carry all the appliances you need and balanced in the panel.
tandum is the wrong word.
if you split a breaker on the same side, thats a wafer and still only gives 100amps, but you have two 100amp breakers, not 220A
2007-03-18 07:36:32 · answer #7 · answered by ticketoride04 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes. this means they work in tandem, or in this case, 200 amp service.
2007-03-18 06:18:40 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
it is 100A service each faze is 100A means if overloaded 110A breaker will go off but individually taking with it other 100A breaker.NOT 200A.
2007-03-18 07:01:32 · answer #9 · answered by handyct 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋