Federal Pacific main panel and circuit breakers

[joedoh]

my current house had a fed pac box, failed inspection (but not the purchase), local company replaced the box and brought everything up to code, that was 2010 and it was about 14k to move the panel to the garage and upgrade a couple lines.

bought another place with a shop, city made me fix up the house to use the shop, another fed pac box and this time i took the local test (i am a double E with common sense and a code book) and did it all my self, main replacement, sub replacement, all new 4 wire 220 lines, GFCI bathrooms and kitchen, including the 100A copper feed to the shop. cost about 4k. I also at the time added an addition on our house and wired it too, 100A sub panel.

what astounded me about the house i live in that it was still a 40A drop from the 50s. 2400sq ft with elec stove and dryer. two aircon! I have no idea how it wasnt a flaming pile of wreckage.