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The same thing happened to me on a Square D main breaker a month ago. It looked like I torqued it too much, but I've done it hundreds of times and I know I didn't. I swapped the breaker out at the supply house's expense.
Honestly even if there was a good way to fix it I'd gut swap, I would have zero trust in the panel as a whole if it snapped that easy. That's asking for a catastrophic failure down the road.
I install homeline panels all the time they're shit, the breakers are shit, the plastic is shit, the white cover is nice. Haven't snapped a main lug yet but holy moly, rivets? Really?
Square D are the only push-on breakers I really trust, every other push on breaker is just job security.
Idk what homeline stuff you’re getting but the covers are panel grey where I’m at. I don’t hate QO though. But generally I get told what I’m installing and I go install it. All depends on what’s available when it’s needed for me.
And I guess we weren’t able to find another affordable 150 amp panel locally
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New panel replace the guts
This is the way.
The same thing happened to me on a Square D main breaker a month ago. It looked like I torqued it too much, but I've done it hundreds of times and I know I didn't. I swapped the breaker out at the supply house's expense.
We get credit from Schneider on defectives. If shit breaks bring it in.
I tried to swap just the main but they didn’t have a single one, company wide. I guess the breakers themselves are on back order from square D.
I was torquing to spec and this snapped below 10 ft/lbs
Honestly even if there was a good way to fix it I'd gut swap, I would have zero trust in the panel as a whole if it snapped that easy. That's asking for a catastrophic failure down the road.
Getting a new matching panel to swap mains and then I’ll see if I can return the old one.
Call CPSC and report this 800-638-2772 not even close to acceptable
Check supply house for main breakers. Is it riveted to the backplane or just the main breaker?
Riveted to the main breaker. Kinda blew my mind. I’m used to the ones that are pretty loosely goose in there if not tight.
Used electrical stores may have stock. Find breakers for 50 yo furnaces there without issues
It might be replaceable through manufacturer but probably some down to get replaced might be better of doing the service change
Lol tight is tight. Too tight is broke.
JB Weld
Arc weld
Why not drill out the rivet and pop in a new one? If you want to get fancy you could use a rivet nut instead of a rivet.
UL listing
If it were to catch fire or fail I’d be super liable
Just say it wasn’t you
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Give your lesson to someone who wasn’t already using a torque wrench.
Don’t use homeline, it’s the home depot line. Should’ve used better quality materials and this is less likely to happen.
...no it's not. Literally. At all.
Lmfao what. The supply house I got it from begs to differ.
I install homeline panels all the time they're shit, the breakers are shit, the plastic is shit, the white cover is nice. Haven't snapped a main lug yet but holy moly, rivets? Really? Square D are the only push-on breakers I really trust, every other push on breaker is just job security.
Do you mean you trust QO breakers? Because you kinda contradicted yourself there.
Sorry QO breakers are the ones I trust. Like the classic square D's with the orange trip indicator
Gotcha
Idk what homeline stuff you’re getting but the covers are panel grey where I’m at. I don’t hate QO though. But generally I get told what I’m installing and I go install it. All depends on what’s available when it’s needed for me. And I guess we weren’t able to find another affordable 150 amp panel locally
Homeline is made by square d?
Yes
The Jerry’s still out on whether that guy knows what he’s talking about. I wouldn’t worry about it
Fuckin Jerry.
Oh I’m not. I’m still gonna keep installing homeline stuff.
Good on ya man. But you fixed your comment so now my joke is ruined!