Ridiculous GE breaker hold-down Kit.

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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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No power at service yet but thanks for reminding me of that.... I should’ve known better than to buy that junk.


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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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All I can say is wow.
Thank you for the heads up.
 
I see a lot of physical differences. 10 kAIC vs 22kAIC maybe. Guessing here.:)

I’m going to go back and look again. Supplier said “old style and new style”.... idk about that. They had the same part numbers on the box but there has to be something else going on.


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You have 2 different generations of breakers. The newer breaker obviously, is what you need for the kit. I use GE all the tiome and never have any issues with it.
 
I’m going to go back and look again. Supplier said “old style and new style”.... idk about that. They had the same part numbers on the box but there has to be something else going on.


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How about "real breaker", "counterfeit breaker"? My money is on the one that doesn't fit to be the counterfeit. It's too clean to be a genuine GE breaker!
 
I've never installed a GE panel and never intend too. This just gives me more of a reason to avoid this garbage....
 
You have 2 different generations of breakers. The newer breaker obviously, is what you need for the kit. I use GE all the tiome and never have any issues with it.
Same part number....that is incredibly poor control on GE's part. If any aspect of an updated product is incompatible with the rest of the system, it should get a new part number.
 
You have 2 different generations of breakers. The newer breaker obviously, is what you need for the kit. I use GE all the tiome and never have any issues with it.

Trying to jog my brain here.

I remember something about bus stabs, the notch where the breaker goes onto the bus, and incompatibility with the two for certain panels.....cannot remember....
 
Am I missing something? One is G7321, one is M7321. Is that not a part #? Which is the one that works?
 
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