Hi Scott
Remember me? (From that other board)
Anyway I try to explain to folks in a calm and rational manner that FPE are trouble. I’ve seen it went on a service call one day (at a lawyers office) it was summer and around 10-11 AM each day the breaker for several window air conditioners tripped. Upon investigation I found them to be on an FPE panel 20Amp circuit. My first thought was wow these things do work. So I reset the breaker and went up and turned on the units. Then with my trusty Amp meter in hand back to the panel I went. Lo and behold 35amps of load!! And it only took 3-4 for a trip!!! Another example during a remodel job removing some old heat circuits I asked my partner if he had killed all circuits. “Yep all dead”, as I proceeded to cut into a 10/2 RX no trip, just pliers welded to the side of a 4” square box. Bottom line my advice is get rid of them. The following web site has some good information, which I have printed out, and shown people in the past it usually does the trick.
http://www.inspect-ny.com/fpe/CPSCsummary.htm http://www.inspect-ny.com/fpe/fpe.html
