A Panel, a Standard, and a Man Who Taught It Right

This Square D Homeline panel was one I installed years ago while working under Wulle Electric.
At the time, it was just another job — another service done the right way.

Today, it’s something else entirely.

The owner of that name, Walter Owen Wulle Jr., of East New Market, Maryland, passed away.
And this panel stands as a quiet example of how he ran work: clean, deliberate, code-minded, and forward-looking.

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The Work Itself

This is a Square D Homeline load center, installed as a service panel, not a subpanel.

Key characteristics:

• Bottom-fed main breaker
• Proper service bonding (neutral and ground bonded at the service)
• Clean... clean... clean... conductor routing with intentional layout
• Aluminum service neutral properly landed
• No overcrowding, no shortcut breaker stacking

The bottom-left section of the panel is all dual-function (AFCI/GFCI) combo breakers.

That detail matters.

At the time this panel was done, combo breakers were:

• More expensive
• Less common
• Not “minimum code” everywhere yet

They were installed anyway — where they made sense.

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Why the Combo Breakers Matter

Dual-function breakers provide:

• Arc-Fault protection (fire prevention)
• Ground-Fault protection (shock prevention)

Statistically:

• AFCI protection reduces electrical fire ignition risk by over 50%
• GFCI protection reduces fatal shock risk by over 80%

Installing them selectively — not blindly, not cheaply, not for show — reflects judgment, not checkbox wiring.

That was a Wulle Electric hallmark.

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The Wulle Electric Standard

Walter didn’t wire to impress inspectors.
He wired so the next electrician wouldn’t curse his name.

That meant:

• Circuits that made sense
• Panels that could be serviced years later
• Upgrades that anticipated future code, not just current minimums
• No mystery splices, no hidden sins

If something took longer but reduced risk, it got done that way.

Not because it was profitable —
because it was correct.

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More Than Code on a Screen

A lot of what I work on now lives in terminals, repositories, and blockchains.
PeakeCoin takes up a visible part of that work.

But I didn’t arrive there from nowhere.

Before the bots, the APIs, the automation, there were service panels, conduit runs, load calculations, and inspections.
There was learning how power actually behaves — not theoretically, but in real buildings, with real consequences.

That background matters.

It’s the same mindset:

• Understand the system
• Respect failure modes
• Build so the next person doesn’t inherit a problem

Whether it’s electrical infrastructure or digital infrastructure, the standard is the same.

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A Quiet Legacy

There are no plaques on breaker panels.
No signatures on neutral bars.
No credits when the lights come on.

But there is continuity.

Every clean panel, every intentional layout, every choice to do more than minimum — that’s how a tradesman stays present after he’s gone.

This panel is one of many.
And that’s exactly the point.

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In memory of
Walter Owen Wulle Jr.
East New Market, Maryland
Wulle Electric

The work still speaks.