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Todays panel has four breakers, combined, single pull, rated at 200amps. the panel is rated at 400amp. This is a 200amp service?
Thanks "I have not failed, I have just found a 1000's way's that didn't work" Thomas Edison www.newbeginningshomeinspection.com |
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Speedy Petey is a non-member guest and is in no way affiliated with InterNACHI or its members.
I think a pic is going to be required, unless someone is familiar with this particular panel.
Actually, if it is anything like some Siemens panels, they use a similar setup for 200 amps. They use two 2-pole 100A main breakers in parallel, giving 200 amps. It looks like four single pole breakers tied together. There was a thread not too long ago about this. This is probably the same thing but for 400A. |
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Speedy
I think this is the same set up you are talking about. There are 4, it looks single pole 200amps breakers, with one pole switch controlling them all. Attachment 18699 Thanks "I have not failed, I have just found a 1000's way's that didn't work" Thomas Edison www.newbeginningshomeinspection.com Last edited by nbhi; 7/8/08 at 8:42 AM.. |
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The SEC is 4/0 AWG also. It is rated for 200amps correct?
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Speedy Petey is a non-member guest and is in no way affiliated with InterNACHI or its members.
Yup, that's exactly what I was referring to.
200 amps for sure. |
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Looks like a standard 200A GE panel, the main breaker is 200A, the extra 200A labels are misleading.
Where did you see 400A? No way that is a 400A panel. B.A. King Home Inspections, LLC www.BAKingHomeInspections.com Serving Charlotte NC area and Rock Hill SC areas. CMI Certified Master Inspector and Independent License NC2449 and SC1597 704 301-3207 "Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought." - Albert Szent-Gyvrgyi, Nobel Prize for Medicine 1937 |
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Bruce
The wording in the panel. No wait, it was hand written on the label. Probably the electrician did it. So, this isn't a 400amp rated panel? "I have not failed, I have just found a 1000's way's that didn't work" Thomas Edison www.newbeginningshomeinspection.com |
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Speedy Petey is a non-member guest and is in no way affiliated with InterNACHI or its members.
Oh yeah. I forgot you mentioned 400 amps.
NO WAY is this a 400A panel. |
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Marc Benz is a non-member guest and is in no way affiliated with InterNACHI or its members.
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I am famiur with this panel and it is only 200 amp main breaker as what Speedy Pete he got it right on first answer. BTW if this is a 400 amp the breaker box and the size of main breaker is much larger than what the photo showed. Merci, Marc |
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