General brand- breaker

[Pierre C Belarge]

Here are some similar type of breakers

 

[iwire]

Whats up with the 1/2 tripped 40?

For that matter why is a dryer feed with a 40?

Is this a dwelling unit?

 

[Pierre C Belarge]

I took that picture back in May of '05 and I do not remember the details of the job.

I did take it to show how a "2-pole" breaker can have one leg off. I do not remember completely, but I think they did not even know it was off.
Who knows if it even supplied the dryer :-?

 

[ItsHot]

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Speaking of colored breakers, how about a certain vintage of FPE's where the whole case of the breaker was a rainbow of mixed plastic specks. The psychedelic breaker, so it would seem.

Designer breakers! I have not seen one of those in a while!

 

[LarryFine]

. . . I think they did not even know it was off.

They may have accepted that the dryer was slow, and not realized that the motor could be running without the heater element functioning. I have had several people call me after buying a new dryer they didn't need to buy.

It's weird how often it's the non-motor side of the circuit that is the one that fails, almost as if the motor somehow protects its leg, often the plug and socket, sometimes the breaker on the panel bus, from arcing and melting open.

 

[LarryFine]

It's noteworthy that the main breaker for lower-half of the split bus is missing its handle tie. The handle count is within the required six-throw limit, but shouldn't there be one anyway? I can't imagine that it's not required here.

 

[Pierre C Belarge]

Just guessing, but maybe the breakers were changed after the initial installation.

 

[LarryFine]

Just guessing, but maybe the breakers were changed after the initial installation.

Likely to be correct. The breakers on the right look like the old Arrow/Hart Murrays, and the newer ones look like Bryants.