brantmacga
Señor Member
- Location
- Georgia
- Occupation
- Former Child
I posted a thread here a few days ago about having to change a 200A service to a 60A service due to zoning requirements in this particular town in Florida.
My main supplier sells GE; I refuse to buy it, but I did today out of convenience and time constraints.
125A MLO loadcenter... planned to back-feed 60A as a main. I check the paperwork with the loadcenter to see which breaker hold-down kit I need.
This job is 45 min from the supply house in the middle of the woods. Get the loadcenter installed and the bracket WILL not fit over the breaker. I double check part numbers and all is right.
I get back to the supply house to look at breakers, and I don’t know why but GE makes two different breakers with the same part number. One of them works with the retaining clip, the other does not.
See pic.... you’ll see the difference in the breakers. The clip fits over the breaker with the deeper notch in the bottom of the pic. Also, the lugs are different sizes.
This is ridiculous. Not gonna lie, I took my knife and shaved down the plastic so the clip would work. Not making an hour and a half round trip for that.
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My main supplier sells GE; I refuse to buy it, but I did today out of convenience and time constraints.
125A MLO loadcenter... planned to back-feed 60A as a main. I check the paperwork with the loadcenter to see which breaker hold-down kit I need.
This job is 45 min from the supply house in the middle of the woods. Get the loadcenter installed and the bracket WILL not fit over the breaker. I double check part numbers and all is right.
I get back to the supply house to look at breakers, and I don’t know why but GE makes two different breakers with the same part number. One of them works with the retaining clip, the other does not.
See pic.... you’ll see the difference in the breakers. The clip fits over the breaker with the deeper notch in the bottom of the pic. Also, the lugs are different sizes.
This is ridiculous. Not gonna lie, I took my knife and shaved down the plastic so the clip would work. Not making an hour and a half round trip for that.
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