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Checked my supplier, $960 fr.Calif. to Pa. (CH has a similar unit that starts #CMMB...)

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It might be a totally different ball game then. We may not even have circuit breakers as we know them today.

30 years ago I thought FPE Stabloks, and Zinscos were going to be around forever.


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"30 years ago I thought FPE Stabloks, and Zinscos were going to be around forever"

From the number still out there they probably will be!

OK,

I've been delving more and more into the operations side of a friends contracting business. We have decided to work together, me utilizing my estimating and sales skills and knowledge of installation, and his skills in troubleshooting and commercial industrial installations.

I am trying to set myself further apart from the competitors... So, could you explain to me again, why the Cutler Hammer panels are better...

I understand the copper bus bar, is there a differnece in the breakers, anything else that I should know? And overall, on average how do the costs compare for say a BR to CH... I admit, I've always worked with the BR series... I know, bad me... Just the contractors that I have worked with have never really looked into it... they use what they always used.

Can you guys give me more information, so that I can better upsell the customer? And, Les, Sorry, I know that you did explain some of this to me a while back, but I have forgotten.

Thanks,
Glen

When a CH breaker trips the handle goes all the way to the off position, not in the middle like the BR and siemens. It just makes it easer for the homeowner to tell if it is tripped

You get more full-size breakers in a comparable amount of space.

CH breakers are also listed for two wires.

Eric

For what it's worth, I've changed out my fair share of CH style resi panels, usually ater the main decided to self destruct. (see here for one of em). I think I also remember there was a metal bar that people would remove to get twin breakers inside the thing.

The supply house I typically use is a big Cutler Hammer supplier, but not for resi stuff... I'll ask how much just for the heck of it

I've always heard that QO has the best reputation.

Thanks for the info guys.

I've also heard that CH makes a retrofit panel with splitter type connections in the corners, for wires that are too short from the old panel.

Has anyone ever tried them? Or know how they work?