Electrical Panel Upgrades in Wellington, FL

Your electrical panel is the heart of the house. Every light, appliance, and system draws through it, and when it runs out of room or starts showing its age, everything downstream is affected. The most common upgrade we do is a 100-amp panel to 200 amps, which gives the house the capacity modern life actually needs.

Panels also wear out. Breakers get tired, bus bars corrode in Florida humidity, and some older panel designs have a documented history of breakers failing to trip when they should. If your panel is decades old or full, an upgrade is as much about safety as capacity.

Signs your panel needs attention

Panels rarely fail all at once. They tell you, if you know what to listen for. Any of these is a good reason to have yours looked at.

• Breakers trip frequently, or you have no open slots left
• The panel feels warm, hums, or has a burning smell
• Lights dim when large appliances start
• The panel is decades old or uses outdated breaker designs
• You rely on tandem breakers or sub-panels to squeeze in circuits
• Rust or corrosion visible inside the panel

New equipment needs panel capacity

Most upgrades homeowners buy now need real amperage: a new AC system, a mini-split, a Level 2 EV charger, a standby generator, or a pool pump. Each needs dedicated space and capacity in the panel, and we often find the panel is the bottleneck.

Because AC and electrical are both our divisions, we size this in one visit. We confirm what the new equipment needs, check what your panel can give it, and if an upgrade is required, our own electricians do the work and pull the permit.

What a panel upgrade includes

A proper upgrade is more than swapping a box. We install the new panel, size new breakers to each circuit, verify grounding and bonding, label every circuit, and coordinate the utility cut and inspection. Permits are pulled where required.

You get the price in writing before work begins. The power will be off for part of the day, and we will tell you exactly when to expect that so you can plan around it. Financing is available to spread the cost over time.

100 Amps or 200 Amps: How to Decide

Amperage is capacity — how much your home can safely run at the same time — not usage. A bigger panel does not raise your electric bill by itself, and upsizing is not automatically the right answer. The right size comes from a load calculation that totals the equipment your home actually runs, plus what you are about to add.

Staying at 100 amps can be the honest answer when the load calculation shows real headroom, no large new loads are planned, and the reason for the work is the old panel's condition rather than its capacity — a sound, modern panel replaced like for like. Moving to 200 amps usually makes sense when the big loads stack up or are about to:

• Central AC running alongside an electric range, dryer, and water heater — the normal all-electric Wellington load stack.
• A Level 2 EV charger going in — one of the largest single loads a home can add.
• A standby generator, pool equipment, a workshop, or an addition in the plan.
• Breakers tripping from genuine capacity limits, or a panel already full of tandem breakers with no room for the next circuit.

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