Discover how to safely operate your breaker panel and identify what each switch does.

Stop walking across a dark room to turn on the light. Install a 3-way switch and control lights from two locations.

Wires connected to existing breakers for essential circuits in your current electrical panel get disconnected and reconnected to different breakers within the transfer switch panel itself.

A transfer switch is like a mini circuit breaker panel that allows you to draw electricity from your generator instead of from the power company.

Most places you live in today will manage their electrical power via circuit breakers, though fuse boxes predated that technology in the early 20th century.