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Originally Posted by redpoint5
Sounds like it's not to code, or there's another panel feeding it that has the main breaker.
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There is not another panel with a main breaker. The home inspector didn't say anything about the breaker box (but found plenty of other electrical problems created by the "handy" previous owner). The electrician that put in the heat pump said my kind of box is pretty common in my age of house (70's) and that it was fine as long as the top half of the box stayed below 200 amps. (Which makes me think installing more than 200 amps of 220 breakers would be a code violation even if the chances of actually drawing 200 amps is quite low)
The lower half of the box with 110V circuits has 220 amps of breakers fed by one 60 amp breaker. That breaker has never tripped.