Leviton load centers

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nizak

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Curious as to who here are using the Leviton load centers?

In my area a 200A 42 circuit w/ cover is around $170.00

Breakers are competitively priced with Homeline and Siemens.
 
As far as I can tell none of the Leviton distributors around me stock the load centers. Even when searching online its seems to be exclusively an HD and Amazon line. Do many suppliers around you stock them?

Reminds me of Trilliant load centers.
 
curt swartz said:
As far as I can tell none of the Leviton distributors around me stock the load centers. Even when searching online its seems to be exclusively an HD and Amazon line. Do many suppliers around you stock them?

Reminds me of Trilliant load centers.
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One supply house out of three does.
About a $70 savings over Homeline and Siemens and it’s a tinned Cu buss vs Al.

Not that the buss matters a whole lot in residential applications.

Not much cheaper than BR though.
 
Sorry for the thread bump, but I ran across one today during a new construction home inspection. Definitely different. To test the AFCI you switch it off and it waits a few seconds, beeps, and lets you switch it back to on. Built in neutral bus too.IMG_2025-12-10_09-49-06_313.jpegIMG_2025-12-10_09-51-56_931.jpeg
 
I wonder why they used a main breaker panel as a sub panel. It also looks like the neutral and equipment grounding conductor's are still connected but I can easily be wrong about that.
I am addressing the first panel.
 
Dennis Alwon said:
I wonder why they used a main breaker panel as a sub panel.
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This could be an available fault current issue. In the Phoenix area the utilities provide an default AFC at the service, which is generally over 10KAIC for a 200 amp residential panel. The local jurisdictions require that we use the utility value at the service and do not allow AFC calculations for the service lateral or drop. Leviton will not series rate with Siemens, so the Leviton would either need 22KAIC branch circuit breakers for fully rated or a 22KAIC or higher main so that the panel would be series rated as a unit.
 
Dennis Alwon said:
I wonder why they used a main breaker panel as a sub panel.
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Doesn't everybody? LOL.

This is Minnesota. There's snow on the ground 6 months of the year. It's -8 here this morning, unseasonably cold. for $50 over the life of the house, you're going to make someone walk through 2' of snow to get to the outside disconnect so they can work on the inside panel?

We make people spend a couple hundred bucks in materials and labor to put in an outside disconnect because the HVAC guy is too lazy to walk inside and flip the breaker, yet we don't protect the electrician or DIYer from having to do the same thing!

An inside main breaker should be required in code!
 
nizak said:
Curious as to who here are using the Leviton load centers?

In my area a 200A 42 circuit w/ cover is around $170.00

Breakers are competitively priced with Homeline and Siemens.
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I use them, and even put them in my new house. I used some standard breakers and some smart breakers.

After living with it for a year, I find I don't use the smart breaker features anywhere near as much as I thought I would. Without integration into home automation hubs like Smarthings, Home Assistant, Hubitat etc, it's pretty useless.

I really want the new 2nd gen smart breakers that have remote turn on/off for my well, and kid's playroom (so I can shut off the PS4 at bed time) but without being able to automate that through my automation hub, they are worthless to me, especially at $250 a pop!

It's cheaper and more flexible for me to put a cabinet next to the main panel and loop in the circuits that I want to control, and use WiFi swiches and contactors to control what I want to control through my home automation hub.
 
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