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That's a European panel with the front cover missing!

The wiring in and out of the breakers would not normally be exposed like that.

It's definitely not suitable for use in the US though, they're 230V 50Hz European spec components.

Also, has your customer noticed the thousands of miles of "dirty copper" between the power station and his home!?
Or the fact that the breakers in that panel are just fitted with nice gold plated screws, they're the same siemens breakers that handle the circuits for my washing machine [Linked Image]

I wouldn't suggest installing it and certainly not with the backs of the breakers exposed like that.

It looks like a home-brew panel!

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I second Zapped's advice, and add:

Do NOT ever use multiwire circuits!! They have, in my experience, caused more problems than they should.

The worst case I've run into so far was in a multi-million dollar mansion, with three-phase service, five circuits to the audio rack served with 5 #12's and ONE #10 neutral. And the client was wondering why he kept burning up power amps and had massive hum problems...


Stupid should be painful.
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