3000W Chinese Gensets Info.
professor95 wrote: EDIT ADDED 45/5/2013- When this thread started in March of 2005, I never expected to see it survive this long or amass the quantity of information that has been shared here. In...
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I fully agree! However one thing comes to mind. Right now I am sitting home recovering from a heart attack and not working. So I hang around my coach and yard. To date, I have not seen any insurance adjusters or cleanup crews that an insurance company would send out. So does this guy have insurance on the property? He says yes but does he really?
I am also an electrician 30 years into the trade. When I looked after the fire upon his asking, I found the panel to be very old and far from the best of shape. I found breakers over rated for the wire that were very loose fitting on the bus. Heat? Age? Poor clamping causing arcing from the bus? The panel is a Federal Picific with the stab lock breakers. Long ago FPE lost their UL aproval on the breakers due to not properly triping and poor design of locking into the bus. Now we call them "Federal no trips". When he purchased the home five years ago, I'm sure the inspector sent out by his mortgage company would have flagged the panel.
I am also an electrician 30 years into the trade. When I looked after the fire upon his asking, I found the panel to be very old and far from the best of shape. I found breakers over rated for the wire that were very loose fitting on the bus. Heat? Age? Poor clamping causing arcing from the bus? The panel is a Federal Picific with the stab lock breakers. Long ago FPE lost their UL aproval on the breakers due to not properly triping and poor design of locking into the bus. Now we call them "Federal no trips". When he purchased the home five years ago, I'm sure the inspector sent out by his mortgage company would have flagged the panel.
