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jeff48356 said:
$400?? Home Depot sells them here for about $45 for a 200A underground/overhead one.
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Milbank might be a little higher around here than others but is not even close to $400. I get Milbank 200 amp meter-main and 8 space loadcenter for around $250 or 300
 
kwired said:
Milbank might be a little higher around here than others but is not even close to $400. I get Milbank 200 amp meter-main and 8 space loadcenter for around $250 or 300
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Yahhh, but Milbank breakers are practically Zinscos. At least they look that way- no idea how they are built on the inside though.
 
mbrooke said:
Yahhh, but Milbank breakers are practically Zinscos. At least they look that way- no idea how they are built on the inside though.
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Ones I have been seeing in the meter-main-loadcenter units actually are Siemens breakers. The loadcenter is listed to accept various breakers of the 1 inch wide style, but if you want to use their generator interlock kit it says it must be used with a Siemens breaker for the generator breaker.
 
Home Depot and Lowe's here just recently stopped carrying service cable, and I've never seen 3ph stuff at either one.
 
so following through here... and a few other posts haha...
Homeline is the best panel
GE is the best gfci

hmmm...

So, if you are an electrician, and building your retirement home that you dont want to repair all the time, what would you put in it then, ideally, to be both cost effective and hopefully not ever need repairs, even though you can do it yourself?
Other than going to get the insulated staples to hold the NM cable in place with?
 
I've seen numerous products advertised at both stores, only to find out there is not a store within a hundred miles that carries one, or they are only available online.

GE GFCI best breakers? if you mean in terms of easy profit for diagnosing a troubleshooting call, then you are correct. :lol:
 
so who does make the best gfci breakers if you wanted to spec your install for your own home before setting someone loose on it?
Or is that like asking who does the best for electrical supply shops?
 
LarryFine said:
Home Depot and Lowe's here just recently stopped carrying service cable, and I've never seen 3ph stuff at either one.
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About 20 years ago I got one of the HD stores to stock some 3ph stuff for a short time but it didn't sell well enough to justify the space so they stopped.

I still think that if just one supply house was to stay open on weekends and had three phase supplies they would get lots of business but so far that hasn't happened.
 
Big Orange is good at following local trends. I remember doing some work for my buddy in Florida and when we went to HD they had bare #6 and #4 solid. I had never seen that before in this area because no one around here uses it.
 
Adamjamma said:
so following through here... and a few other posts haha...
Homeline is the best panel
GE is the best gfci

hmmm...

So, if you are an electrician, and building your retirement home that you dont want to repair all the time, what would you put in it then, ideally, to be both cost effective and hopefully not ever need repairs, even though you can do it yourself?
Other than going to get the insulated staples to hold the NM cable in place with?
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If you are getting that from another recent thread - it was the AFCI breakers that were mentioned as GE being the best. The most likely reason is they don't have a GFP component, which can be taken with a a little grain of salt as to whether that is a good or bad thing.

electrofelon said:
I agree, however what really annoys me about square D (and I think was a big business blunder) is only making homeline in single phase. To get three phase you have to step up to overpriced QO. :rant:
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They developed that line to be competitive primarily in the residential markets. Even Eaton only had the higher priced CH series until they acquired the BR series from someone else, had they developed their own lower end line instead of buying out someone else it may have only included single phase panels.

infinity said:
Big Orange is good at following local trends. I remember doing some work for my buddy in Florida and when we went to HD they had bare #6 and #4 solid. I had never seen that before in this area because no one around here uses it.
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Kind of expected, why stock stuff at a locality that isn't going to sell because there is little or no demand for it at that locality? Supply houses do the same thing.
 
MAC702 said:
I know I've never seen them here in the US, but I've not looked for them. I have, however, installed Square D Homeline 3-pole breakers in a Homeline 3-phase panel in Colombia in 2005. Hmmmm. Until you questioned it, I was 100% sure; now I'm 96%.
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If they do have such thing it is not available on the US market, not in the US market catalogs either.
 
infinity said:
Big Orange is good at following local trends. I remember doing some work for my buddy in Florida and when we went to HD they had bare #6 and #4 solid. I had never seen that before in this area because no one around here uses it.
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I was doing a job for a friend of a friend down in maryland once, and big orange had AC cable. It must be more commonly used there.
 
electrofelon said:
I agree, however what really annoys me about square D (and I think was a big business blunder) is only making homeline in single phase. To get three phase you have to step up to overpriced QO. :rant:
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Even Murray comes in 3 phase. They loose business here.
 
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