Panelboards, also known as "electrical panels", "circuit breaker panels", "fuse boxes", "distribution boards", "consumer units", or "load centers". Remember to provide your location. Include photographs of the existing equipment or plans. Questions about individual overcurrent devices (breakers or fuses) should use the [circuit-breaker] tag.
A panelboard, sometimes called an "electrical panel", "circuit breaker panel", "fuse box", "distribution board", "consumer unit", or "load center", is a busbar or mounting assembly and accompanying dead front enclosure, designed to house overcurrent protection devices (fuses/fuseholders, circuit breakers) and/or circuit disconnecting means (fuseholder disconnects, circuit breakers, snap switches). Other forms of circuit protection (ground fault/residual current, arc fault, and central surge/spike) may be integrated into panelboards as well.
Related tags
- circuit-breaker for questions about overcurrent devices.
- subpanel for questions about using more than one panelboard.
