Who this helps
field teams and permit coordinators collecting electrical intake details for a residential PV packet.
Main Service Panel Photo Checklist
Prepare main service panel photos, ratings, breaker notes, labels, and missing electrical details before solar plan-set review.
What to gather
- Main panel photo
- Label and rating visibility
- Breaker location notes
- Known service upgrade or interconnection assumptions
Suggested workflow
- Capture panel and label photos.
- Record known ratings without guessing.
- Flag unclear electrical values.
- Route the packet to a qualified reviewer.
Boundary
SolarPermitPrepAI is an intake and precheck workflow. It is not an engineering stamp, permit approval, electrical design service, or legal advice.
Packet quality checklist
- Capture the full panel, close-up label, breaker area, and surrounding working space when possible.
- Mark unknown ratings as missing rather than filling in assumed values.
- Keep service-panel notes connected to the project address and equipment scope.
Professional review boundary
- Electrical service ratings, breaker sizing, busbar limits, and interconnection method require qualified review.
- SolarPermitPrepAI does not calculate electrical compliance or approve service equipment.
- Use the checklist as intake preparation for the responsible electrician, engineer, or designer.
Missing-item triggers
- No clear panel label photo
- Unknown busbar or main breaker rating
- Line-side tap, service upgrade, or backup panel
- Old, damaged, unlabeled, or crowded panel conditions
Quote handoff review
Before paying for review, confirm the address, AHJ, utility, project scope, equipment models, attachment list, and open questions. The cleaner the packet, the easier it is for a qualified professional to price and route the next step.
When the $49 packet prep is worth it
Pay only after the free precheck has an address, AHJ, project scope, equipment notes, first document list, and a qualified reviewer who can make the official decisions. The $49 review is useful for missing-item, document-owner, field-verification, reviewer-question, and quote-handoff structure. Skip payment if you need an engineering design, PE stamp, permit submission, portal login, fee payment, utility or AHJ contact, code interpretation, licensure verification, inspection readiness, construction authorization, safety advice, or guaranteed approval, interconnection, inspection, schedule, quote, payment, ranking, traffic, sales, or revenue.
Can it tell me if the panel is compliant?
No. It flags missing information for qualified review.
What photos are useful?
A full panel photo, label close-up, breaker area, and meter/service context are commonly useful.