Challenger Panel
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Eaton got Challenger when they bought Westinghouse in 1994, they later sold Challenger to T&B, go to the C-H website and you should be able to find the info that the C-H BR breakers are a UL classified replacement for Challenger breakers.
Slightly off topic: Does anyone know what happened to the T&B panel line?
Slightly off topic: Does anyone know what happened to the T&B panel line?
jaylectricity
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Heh...good thing because that's what I bought today for a circuit in a Challenger panel I'm doing tomorrow.
peter d
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It was totally discontinued. There was a supply house near me that carried it and they had it one week and they didn't have it the next.
If I remember correctly T&B stuff was functionally and mechanically identical to the Challenger/Westinghouse stuff of that time period. I still have a handful of T&B breakers and they are exactly the same as a modern Cutler Hammer or old Bryant or Westinghouse.
I still wondered why T&B dropped the line,they bought the Westinghouse safety switch line at the same time as getting Challenger, so between them there had to be a significant investment . I have never used T&B as it's been going on nearly 30 years that I have dispised Bryant and it's successors......
After Westinghouse bought Challenger they used Bryant/Westinghouse BR breakers rebadged as Challenger (much the same thing as Siemens did later w/ Crouse-Hinds/Murray in dropping the Murray design & using the I-T-E breakers they already manufactured) & they also rebadged larger frame Westinghouse breakers as Challenger replacing the FPE ones used before, since they were branded as Zinsco & Sylvania before & they had always used FPE for anything over 225A and or 240V.
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