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westend
Jul 20, 2016Explorer
I made my own combiner box from off-the-shelf parts. A plastic exterior rated box with a gasket and two lug strips pulled from an abandoned load center. The run to the controller is interrupted by a manual resettable circuit breaker. The function of the circuit breaker is to interrupt power from the module so that I can work during the day, downstream, without any current present.
Here is the combiner box, an LB. I have the wires in conduit to the controller location:

Watertight box entry:

Here is the manual breaker used as a switch:
Cooper-Bussmann manual circuit breaker
Here is the combiner box, an LB. I have the wires in conduit to the controller location:

Watertight box entry:

Here is the manual breaker used as a switch:
Cooper-Bussmann manual circuit breaker
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