kwired
Electron manager
- Location
- NE Nebraska
I ran into this on accident one time. Found out they can configure panel bus connection on NQ panels pretty much however you want. I ordered one one time and was wondering why it was taking so long to get it, because what I wanted was something I had gotten several times before from stocked components or at least a combination of items I have gotten before when building from stock components. I needed a 30 circuit three phase main lug panel bus assembly, a main breaker , a main breaker mounting kit, and a feed through lug kit, and an enclosure long enough to accommodate the main breaker kit and the feed through lugs kit. I did have some breakers on the order as well but this is what caused the confusion as I only needed one three pole breaker but did not put it on the order as I already had the one needed. Did need three phase on the feed through lugs and main breaker though.It depends on the panel. While losd centers have limited optiond, there are some panels whuch can have their 'breaker to bus' connections moved so the high leg is not available without loosing breaker mounting space.
Normally I get all the parts out of stock and have to field assemble it. My sales guy asked me if this was a high leg delta and I said yes. That changed what the software built for him when he entered the information. I ended up getting a factory assembled three phase panel with the main breaker and feed through lugs, but the 30 spaces were "120 volt prepared spaces". All were A and C phase, no connection to B phase other than the subfeed lug on the opposite end of bus from the main breaker.
I explained this won't work for me and we figured out why it got ordered that way. They took it back and I got what I actually wanted from stock in just a couple days or so. They often need to drag components from other store locations to fulfil this kind of order in short time.
This special order panel today probably takes over a year to get though the way things have been. That one (probably 2016-1019 time frame) only took around 30-45 days but was still longer than I was expecting when most those panels normally I build from stock items.