What are these boxes above the panel?

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Can anyone tell me what these boxes above the panel might be? Looking at a house with my son and have never seen anything quite like it.
 

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Those are small breaker boxes, just like the larger panel below, but they only have two positions for breakers.

NEC 240.24 still requires that the handle of the breakers when in the up position are no higher than 6' 7" above the floor, so if that's not true, it's an NEC violation. There's an exception for breakers mounted next to the equipment they supply, but I don't see any such equipment in your photo.

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