Know An Electrician?

I just moved my “studio” (aka computer room) down to my basement. There are too many things running on the circuit, so when the washing machine, the dehumidifier(s), lights, my computer equipment, and the home theatre upstairs (for some reason the front wall outlets are on the basement circuit) are all in use, I trip the circuit breaker. There are empty banks (right term?) in the main circuit breaker box, as well as some legacy breakers - the electric range is now gas - so those 2 110 lines that are grouped to make a 220 for an electric range are useless, and I think the dryer is now gas, too, and there’s a separate breaker for that.

I’d like to get someone to come take a look and give me an estimate for having all this fixed up so I stop tripping the breaker - and can have some lights on while washing clothes.

Also, I’d love to have my portable generator tapped into the box for easy transfer in case we have a blackout again.

you have a pm

you can backfeed your panel with a generator… (1/2 of it anyway)

need to be carefull when you actually use it though…

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you can backfeed your panel with a generator… (1/2 of it anyway)

need to be carefull when you actually use it though…

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you can get a 2 pole breaker and cover both legs.

but nyseg and ng are typically against this type of installation without an automated utility disconnect.