Zinsco Electrical Panel ?

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Zinsco Electrical Panel question

Zinsco Electrical Panel question

iceworm said:
I'm liking this one. The 70A feeds all the CB on the right.
I recall one about like this that I put in during the mid 70s
Only issue is this one would have 7 disconnects, six on the left side and the 70A - which doesn't seem to fit.

Time to pull the cover, get out the Knopp. Shut it off and see what dies
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I count 16, 20 amp breakers on the right side of the panel; how could a 70 amp breaker handle that load (could it have simply been tied in to the kitchen circuits, which I'm told are the one's which were losing power when this 70 amper blew.
 
electrofelon said:
LOL they are still around! I am always curious when I see those labels on older equipment if they are still in business.
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Or shipping labels still stamped or affixed to something can be interesting as well. Might even be the label for the supplier it was purchased from.
 
carguy1nn said:
When it tripped it was kitchen circuits which went out. I'm trying to figure out what was rerouted ( it seems that somehow kitchen circuits were tied to the 70 amp "main labelled" breaker) How might things have been wired between the kitchen circuits and this 70 amp breaker that would be fixed by "re-routing" some wires ( could new kitchen circuits have been installed with a remodel that somehow tied these two together?
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The best way to tell what a breaker protects is to turn the breaker off and see what goes dead.
You say the kitchen circuits go dead when the breaker trips. If that's what goes off when the breaker trips then that's what the breaker protects.

I found one last fall where they had a small sub panel in the crawl space directly below the kitchen. Not a very good place for a sub panel but that didn't stop them from putting it there.

I have found sub panels in closets, in cabinets, even buried in walls. So you ma have to look very hard to find it if there is one.
 
Did you open the panel and look, this is all speculation that can easily turned into fact with the turn of a few screws!
 
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