SquareD QO vs Homeline for residential

Status
Not open for further replies.
I personally try to be brand agnostic but I avoid two things:
1) Aluminum busbars.
2) Breakers that stick out into the wireway part of the panel.

So that rules out homeline and Eaton CH.
QO I have no issue with, as it has copper busbar and well made breakers.
Funny thing is Schneider the parent company of SQ D also makes FPE panels and breakers in Canada.
 
tortuga said:
I personally try to be brand agnostic but I avoid two things:
1) Aluminum busbars.
2) Breakers that stick out into the wireway part of the panel.

So that rules out homeline and Eaton CH.
QO I have no issue with, as it has copper busbar and well made breakers.
Funny thing is Schneider the parent company of SQ D also makes FPE panels and breakers in Canada.
Click to expand...
I thought they finally stopped producing federal pioneer replacements like the last year or so.
 
I switched to the new Levington panels mainly because of availability but I like them because the wire doesn't go on the breaker itself and there's no pig tail to fool with on arc and gfi breakers.
 
tortuga said:
I personally try to be brand agnostic but I avoid two things:
1) Aluminum busbars.
2) Breakers that stick out into the wireway part of the panel.

So that rules out homeline and Eaton CH.
QO I have no issue with, as it has copper busbar and well made breakers.
Funny thing is Schneider the parent company of SQ D also makes FPE panels and breakers in Canada.
Click to expand...

Not all QO loadcenters are copper bus. You need to check the specs when buying because a lot of them are aluminum bus now. I believe all the 3-phase models have copper bus as standard. You can get NQ panelboards with aluminum bus.

I bought a new QO loadcenter for my shed last year and was surprised to see that all of the models at Home Depot were aluminum. I had to order the copper bus version.

I’m not as familiar with the CH line, but I do know you can get them with a copper bus as well. I thought they were all copper, but I’m not really sure. I bought a replacement interior for a customer awhile back and it was copper.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
 
Qo and homeline both have those vertical breaker small 612 and 816 subpannels that homeowners get confused by neutral and hot on. Those are always aluminum I think. But I like them for old houses since they fit in the old fuse box spaces.
 
jim dungar said:
Actually Bulldog was bought by ITE-Gould which was then bought by Siemens. I just looked at my 1982 ITE Speedfax catalog and it had no products with the Bulldog name.
Click to expand...
Bulldog was bought by the ITE Circuit Breaker Company which became the ITE Imperial Corp after a merger with Imperial Eastman brass, Gould Inc bought them in 1976, the Gould era was the last of the marketing of the Pushmatic product line, pity anyone who has 3 phase Pushmatic gear, that would be worse then having Trillaint panels. But anytime one has obsolete panels, best to have a plan to replace it.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Top