Looking for some advise. I have a house with a 200 amp overhead service. The residence told me that when they turn on some of their major appliances ( oven, dryer, baseboard heat) that sometimes the main breaker trips. Sometimes after it trips it won't reset right away and may take up to 45 minutes on some occassions. I get a reading of 124 from both sides of the panel to neutral, thinking it was a neutral problem. Another problem they have, which might be unrelated to this is that in an upstairs bathroom the power goes out, sometime for a day to week, without any breaker tripping, before it comes back on by itself, and they go through a ton of light bulbs in that bathroom. After talking to them for a while thay did say they had lightning strike a tree in the back yard and that these problems started to happen after that. When looking at the panel, which in itself is difficult to get at, it appears that there could be some burn marks on the bus bar around the main breaker (old ITE panel with wide main breaker). My thought was that the lightning strike caused the main to weaken and that is why it keeps tripping and won't go back in right away. The whole pane is old and I think a new panel would fix the problem, however I don't want to have them spend the money if the problem could be else where. Any insight would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Dave