Replacing a main breaker

[boboelectric]

Do everybody a favor.Its time for a service upgrade to 150 amp at least.

Bob O. 84,Pa.15330

 

[LarryFine]

Am I the only one who mounts new-panel guts into existing enclosures when feasable?

 

[hardworkingstiff]

Am I the only one who mounts new-panel guts into existing enclosures when feasable?

No, I assumed they thought about that and there was not a new panel that fit properly.

 

[hardworkingstiff]

Jeff, I don't intend to tell you how to operate your business. What I will say is that I cannot understand how you made money on that job. I'm glad it's working out for you, but my price on a 5 hour job with $220 my cost on material would have been more like 700 or 800 bucks.

$625 here.

 

[big vic]

Turns out the breaker was replaceable, but the guys at the supply house said the price is over $400. So much for that idea.

I suggest a new supply house

 

[mdshunk]

I suggest a new supply house

Not really. That about right for that breaker. It's an odd one. When this thread was started, I checked my supply house and they were 340 bucks.

 

[mdshunk]

Am I the only one who mounts new-panel guts into existing enclosures when feasable?

How do you pull that off in a complliant manner. For instance, square D cans list the interiors that they will accept. The old one's, like the one in this thread, would have not had any interior listed that exists today.

I've done a few of the CH interiors in flush mounted Sylvania/Zinsco panels, but they have an interior specifically designed to do so.

 

[tallgirl]

How do you pull that off in a complliant manner. For instance, square D cans list the interiors that they will accept. The old one's, like the one in this thread, would have not had any interior listed that exists today.

Some models have been around forever. The GE panel from the flood pic I posted some time back was still being made and it had been where it was for decades. It needed a new panel, but not because I couldn't find innards for what was there.

 

[gary]

I've done a few of the CH interiors in flush mounted Sylvania/Zinsco panels, but they have an interior specifically designed to do so.

Could you please elaborate on this? There are a lot of ageing Sylvania/Zinsco panels in our area and I would love to find a more cost effective way to repair them.

 

[mdshunk]

Could you please elaborate on this? There are a lot of ageing Sylvania/Zinsco panels in our area and I would love to find a more cost effective way to repair them.

I can't say that is is necessarily "cost effective", but it certainly is faster for flush panels. It is a kit that CH makes with a new CH interior and new cover to go on certain of the more popular Sylvania/Zinsco panels.

Here's the general document on their retrofit panelboard interiors and covers for retrofitting any brand:
http://www.cutlerhammer.com/unsecure/cms1/TD00308001E.PDF

They make a specific kit for the Sylvania/Zinsco stuff, but I can't find the link to it at the moment. Sorry.

 

[gary]

Thanks Marc. I wasn't aware that there was any UL approved product like this. I'll try to track down the Zinsco kit myself.