What does the fuse box in my basement control?

Question

DO NOT answer this if your going to say "I don't know" or "it depends". I am so sick of those answers and they don't help me at all!

Answer 1

Your fuse box controls the circuits to your house's electricity. One fuse may "control" the circuit to your kitchen appliances, one for your wall outlets, one for your bedroom, etc., etc. The fuses are there to make sure that if there is an electrical overload, instead of something catching fire the fuse will blow instead.

Answer 2

the fuse box controls every electrical circuit in your house. Hopefully each switch is marked as to what it controls. If not then you might want to take an hour and have someone help you decide what goes to what by turning on lights in every room and then flipping off breakers until you have verified what everything goes to. There should also be a main breaker that will shut down everything. Best used in case of an emergency. And before you go working on any switches, outlets or anything in your house remember to turn these breakers off.

Answer 3

There is no possible way for anyone on the internet to tell you what the fusebox in YOUR basement controls. People have a Main Fuse/Breaker box that has several fuses/breakers that control individual circuits in your house such as a Refrigerator, Stove, Dryer, entire bedroom etc.

But people also have entire separate boxes for furnaces, air conditioners, water heaters, hot tubs, etc.

Answer 4

The fuse box, more likely the breaker box is where the distribution center for electricity in your house. Typically a house has multiple circuits, each on it's own "fuse" (breaker).

The electricity from outside comes into the breaker box, where it branches out via these individual circuits.

A fuse is a one time failure device. Like a fuse in your car. A breaker works like fuse only you can reset it without replacing it. You have a breaker like circuit protection, called ground fault protection, on outlets in your bathroom or kitchen.

Answer 5

Your fuse box control all of the electric power in your house. there's usually one for each room, or section in your house, and one for ALL of the power in your house. So if there's a outage or an blown fuse. go to your fuse box, look at hte section(s) of the house that have no power and click the switch back and forth till the light /power is back on.

Answer 6

The so called fuse box is a panel box. It controls your electric circuits.

Answer 7

Most of the time they control all outlets in the house.
That should be where the main power of the house comes in.

Hope this is helpful

Answer 8

It usually controls the power in your house

Answer 9

it controls our living room lights .. please stop turning the lights off !!