The house that I've been living in has the old screw in type fuses which I am going to convert to breakers later on, but I have some questions. I'm wondering if a fuse box can go bad? Some areas of the house that used to have power no longer have power. I've changed fuses with new ones, even the ones that were not blown and still nothing happens. It first started with a bedroom not having power at all, then a few weeks later another bedroom stopped getting power. Little by little, and room by room everything is losing power. By the way, I don't live in the house at the moment because I'm remodeling my other one so the lack of electrical power to these rooms is no biggie. Now one day the kitchen lost power so I pulled the fixture out to test the wires. Although there wasn't enough power running through the wires to light a bulb, it did make the test light flicker from bright to dim several time a minute. This of course is the only circuit that I've tested that has done this and since then it has completely lost power. I've checked the fuse box and everything looks normal to me. Every now and then I have to replace a blown fuse, which I didn't use to have to do until I started losing power to the rooms. Also I've checked for any rodent infestations and even checked a few series of wires and nothing has damaged the electrical wires running to the outlets, fixtures, etc. Is it possible that the fuse panel is dying? Should I just give up on it and have it converted to the breaker system? Any ideas as to what could have caused these things to happen? Thank you all. I could really use the help guys. -John

i will hook to a 60 amp breaker in my main panel 100 amp service, go through the attic to the other side of house where the subpanel will be mounted to a freestanding carport about a 50 ft. run,from the subpanel i will be adding a plug for my welder,plasma cutter two sets of 3 shoplights and 4 plug for drills and such/ which size wire and what kind will be needed, also what size of subpanel will be needed.