Quick panel question.

[kid_stevens]

What are your feelings or is there any documentation on turning a panel upside down so the Main disconnect is at the bottom?

 

[buzzbar]

It's fine to mount it 'upside down', as long as the main breaker operates horizontally, which most all do now (sorry Siemens, you're out).

 

[mcclary's electrical]

I think it's fine to put the main at the bottom as long as it's bottom fed. It looks unprofessional when it's bottom fed and yet they bring feeder through can up to top. They take up space, exceed bending radius at the top to turn back down, and looks like a amature did it. IMO

 

[480sparky]

Who cares? 99% of panels can be installed either way.

 

[Twoskinsoneman]

Who cares? 99% of panels can be installed either way.

bingo!

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[K8MHZ]

I see it done on a regular basis.

What is funny is when the labels are left upside down because they were put on the panel before installation.

 

[e57]

Depends on the panel.

 

[480sparky]

..........What is funny is when the labels are left upside down because they were put on the panel before installation.

Aren't the labels already installed at the factory? And either printed both ways or sideways so they can be read in either installation?

 

[Sierrasparky]

There are only a few panels that don't work well upside down. Most will work. no issue as long as the handles are not upside down.

 

[cadpoint]

I know one major manufacturer where panels have labels /literature that comes applied with direct reading and upside down.

 

[kid_stevens]

I think it's fine to put the main at the bottom as long as it's bottom fed. It looks unprofessional when it's bottom fed and yet they bring feeder through can up to top. They take up space, exceed bending radius at the top to turn back down, and looks like a amature did it. IMO

Well in all of the original panels the wires went to the top from a bottom inlet but the guys doing this left all the wire and hooked them up with 2 feet of excess looped to bottom feed them.

 

[360Youth]

I locate my main depending on what direction the feeder/se conductors enters.

 

[kid_stevens]

Thanks all