Another sanity check on a panel.

[acer66]

Hi there,

Friend’s panel who does not touch electric with a ten foot pole I took a look at.

House is from the 40ties.

I have looked this panel before but never noticed the Siemens breaker in there.

My uneducated guess is that the hvac guys who recently installed a new full electric hvac system with ac needed to make some room in there and that is what they had at hand.

The upper Siemens breaker does sit right like the lower ones maybe because its a twin in the wrong place.

There was also a solar system installed before the hvac system which explains the concrete dust in there which is hard to see but quite a bitbon the main breaker and the top breaker to the left.

Any thoughts?

Thank you.

 

[wyliesdiesels]

oooofff

its an Eaton BR panel. should only have Eaton BR breakers. Cant make out the rest of the breakers in the low res pic but if they arent eaton BR they need to be replaced

 

[Norcal]

BR loadcenters should only have Eaton BR breakers, but it's a crappy panel & install.

 

[sparky 1971]

And it's a 30 space panel. It might be a 30/40 and it it is, twins would go in the bottom five spaces on each side.

 

[acer66]

Thank you guys, makes me wonder how they passed inspection.

 

[nadogail]

Are you sure it was inspected?

 

[nadogail]

Thank you guys, makes me wonder how they passed inspection.

Was it inspected?

 

[BrandonV]

Thank you guys, makes me wonder how they passed inspection.

Look at any tract home development in the Phoenix metropolitan area and you'll ask how the panel was hot checked by the "electrician" AND inspected by the city. There are videos of inspected load centers where conductors are not screwed down at all.