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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TKMJ wrote:
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.
It doesn't take very much googling to figure out the FPE panels are fire hazards. My brother had one in a house he purchased a few years ago. Pulled the meter immediately when it started just randomly throwing sparks. If he has an insurance company, shouldn't be too hard for him to blame it on that panel in court...
BTW, I should be the proud owner of a Champion 40051 within the next week!
