Can you identify this main panel?

[TobeyA]

Recently moved to a new place (built in 1999). The main panel is missing the dead cover. I want to find a dead cover for it; probably just buy a used box on eBay or FBM. But the box has zero markings on it. No embossed emblem, no stickers anywhere, nothing. The subpanel next to it is a GE, but it has the GE symbol embossed on the cover.

Can anyone identify the brand of the box? I talked to a local electrician; he thinks it's a GE, but he's not 100% sure. If it helps, it's about 14-3/8" wide, and the outside cover is 31-1/8" tall.

Thanks.

 

[BrandonV]

Looks like a Siemens/ITE maybe?

 

[Jim greengo]

Yep,I'd say Siemens also.

 

[Jim greengo]

Might be easier to have somebody cut a new dead front out for you with a plasma cutter,do you know anybody who works at a sheetmetal shop?
A piece of 16g should be about right I'd say.

 

[Bert_]

Definitely an ITE. I recognize that main breaker. They were bought by Siemens but the breakers remain the same.

Nobody will have a dead front for it. You might be able to buy a dead front for a current production panel but the cut out for the main breaker will be different and it will cost more than the entire panel. Best would just be to cut one out of some sheet metal.

 

[sparky 1971]

Keep an eye on ebay and FBM for one. I don't know how much different a Siemens panel would differ, but might be close enough. I was in a similar situation about a year ago, but it was a GE panel and I did not want to change it and drug my feet and made excuses for a couple of months. One day at the local supply house, which carries SQ D exclusively, I saw three GE 200 amp main breaker panels sitting on a shelf at will call so I asked about them. They had shown up UPS quite some time before but nobody knew why so they gave me one. The cover was an exact fit except for the main. I had to cut the opening a little larger and then welded a plate in to cover part of the factory hole, but all was well, especially when the door was closed. Another time, my old boss had me make a panel cover out of a piece of sheet metal for an old Pushmatic once, that was a pain, but because of the panel change rules we have, it saved thousands of dollars.

 

[TobeyA]

Thanks for the help. I'll watch ebay and FBM for a used panel, but I suspect I'll get impatient and just make the cover myself. Time to find out how precise I can measure something...

 

[wyliesdiesels]

Yup main breaker, though hard to read at low res is an ITE, which was succeeded by siemens…

 

[Norcal]

ITE/Siemens EQ loadcenter, not GE, or Bryant/Westinghouse/Cutler-Hammer BR, Murray/Crouse-Hinds, Challenger, SQ D HOM. Those others were competitors who also used a 1" wide circuit breaker

 

[dave*99]

Thanks for the help. I'll watch ebay and FBM for a used panel, but I suspect I'll get impatient and just make the cover myself. Time to find out how precise I can measure something...

Don't measure. Cut strips of card stock, cardboard or heavy paper. I figure 6 strips cut to match the width of steel needed left, right, top, bottom, middle etc. and you are good to go. Glue them together to make a template. Hot glue works well.

 

[mm08822]

Don't measure. Cut strips of card stock, cardboard or heavy paper. I figure 6 strips cut to match the width of steel needed left, right, top, bottom, middle etc. and you are good to go. Glue them together to make a template. Hot glue works well.

The cover is symmetrical about the vertical center line. It's just a few rectangles. Make a cardboard template after you get the balance of the dimensions, cut it out and lay it in place. Cutout/fill-in any errors, then make final template.
Not sure if the cover top (dashed line) will need a bend to work with the 2 pairs of fingers used to keep the cover captive at the top.

 

[mike93lx]

Send cut send would probably be a good place to look at once you have dimensions

 

[dave*99]

The cover is symmetrical about the vertical center line. It's just a few rectangles. Make a cardboard template after you get the balance of the dimensions, cut it out and lay it in place. Cutout/fill-in any errors, then make final template.
Not sure if the cover top (dashed line) will need a bend to work with the 2 pairs of fingers used to keep the cover captive at the top.

That method will surely work. But then the OP will need to:

Time to find out how precise I can measure something...