xguard
Senior Member
- Location
- Baton Rouge, LA
FPE Panel
- Thread starter xguard
- Start date
- Location
- Wisconsin
- Occupation
- PE (Retired) - Power Systems
This looks like a commercial/industrial panel, which means it is not one of the suspect residential ones.
But many people are anti-FPE of any style.
But many people are anti-FPE of any style.
- Location
- San Francisco Bay Area, CA, USA
- Occupation
- Electrical Engineer
Yeah, the dangerous ones were the Stab-Lok variety plug-in panels, this I think was the commercial bolt-on breaker panels. The Stab-Lok bus connections were notoriously bad. But really the bigger problem with FPE was that the breakers failed to trip when they should have, then it was discovered that they had been faking their test reports to UL, who promptly pulled their listing. Most likely the bolt-on breakers would have used the same internal trip mechanisms, so I wouldn't trust it...
hillbilly1
Senior Member
- Location
- North Georgia mountains
- Occupation
- Owner/electrical contractor
Yeah, I’ve had them not trip even with the bolt on ones. I think they only have thermal trip, and no magnetic trip. Should have cut one open before I threw them all away.
kwired
Electron manager
- Location
- NE Nebraska
- Occupation
- EC
Still has the bass ackwards handles from nearly everything else ever . Off is toward the center instead of to the outsides.
Electromatic
Senior Member
- Location
- Virginia
- Occupation
- Master Electrician
...that love to flip OFF when you remove the cover.
- Location
- San Francisco Bay Area, CA, USA
- Occupation
- Electrical Engineer
Pushmatic (Bulldog vintage) were the ones that were thermal only. FPE were thermal-mag, just not well made…