200 Amp Service Panel. An advantage it is larger and covers a bigger hole , and room to splice wires if needed. Even if you aren’t tripping the breakers right now, a 100 amp panel in a modern home is running far too close to capacity to be safe for long term use.
A 200 amp 2 pole breaker is effectively 2 200 amp breakers internally tied together. A 200 amp panel can be loaded to a calculated load of 200 amps. I want to upgrade an existing 200 amp panel to a 400 amp panel.
Such a service provides insufficient power for modern usage and generally needs to be updated.
One of the most frequent questions the new home buyers ask is whether to get 100 or 200 amp service for their new home. Inspector said it looks fine Is the 200 amp service worth the extra expense? Perhaps they need to bring larger feeders.