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new Square D panel

Lightman

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Just saw the new Square D line of a intergrated arc fault / ground fault breaker panels and breakers with a neutral bar in the panel, the breaker plugs on both hot and neutral, instead of the neutral pigtail.
Anybody used these? or thoughts?
 
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Jarnipman

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I have put these in. I love them, easy, clean and have not had any problems. The only irritating part is the cheapskates make you buy a ground bar seperate. In my shop and nothing nuisance trips on DFCIs in that panel.
 
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Lightman

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General question about ground fault and arc fault breakers, do you connect both neutral and hot to the breaker, or only the hot like the old breakers?
Havent done wiring since ground fault came out.................................
 
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Norcal

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Neutral has to be connected at the breaker for GFCI and AFCI circuit breakers.
 

cbogg

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Looking at these for when I upgrade my panel. One thing to being see, is standard non-afci or gfci breakers. I have a couple of circuits that won't get those, the remainder would still fall under their "install faster keep wiring cleaner" claims, but if they really bought all he way in where are the regular breakers? You could do an entire panel without screwing in any neutrals to the bar and make it really clean but they don't seem to have them, not that I can find anyway. Their stuff is expensive, the increase over regular will add 200+ dollars alone over the regular pigtail breakers, which are pricey enough on their own. Not that it matters all that much but if I'm spending the money, the ocd in me says all or none. Which has me leaning towards a more standard panel just so it's all the same. Plus I'd save a few bucks.
 
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