bigbillsd wrote:
westend wrote:
An alternative is to buy surface mount breakers and wire up the distribution from those. You can make it all look good by mounting the breakers on a piece of aluminum plate. Here's a good place to shop for circuit protection: Waytek Wire. Mounting three surface mount breakers will use about 1/8 -> 1/4 the space of a steel box. If you'll pay the price, the Cooper-Bussmann manual breakers are the way to go, they even sell a sealed Marine type (not necessary, IMO).
Do they make surface mount breakers for 120 AC current? Everything I looked at was automotive, mostly @12 volt.
ANY 120V or higher connection MUST be contained in some sort of enclosed box. IF you do find a "surface mount" type of 120V breaker you WILL need to put it into some sort of enclosure UNLESS it is specifically designed and rated for use outside of enclosure..
Not saying there is no such critter but there IS logical reasons why you are not seeing this type of breaker.
You might find a surface mount breaker in use in INDUSTRIAL controls but they too WILL need to be mounted in an enclosure. Most any industrial items like you seek WILL be far more expensive than simply buying a general purpose 2 position breaker panel I linked in my post above.
12V stuff IS NOT treated the same as 120/240 as far as electrical codes goes and those types of electrical connections are NOT required to be contained in an electrical enclosure..
