Is this disconnect legal or safe?
#1
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Is this disconnect legal or safe?
I have an outdoor breaker panel that supplies a shop. I want to basically move that panel to inside the shop so I can have branch circuits and a welder hookup, which I already have but I want more than one 20a circuit.
anyway, the wire all the way to the shop is 6 ga and that’s all fine. I need to either use a box and giant wire nuts to remove that breaker panel, or I can use this new old stock disconnect I found. It is a 60A but it has fuses.
This just puts a disconnect outside and lets me connect the wires in place of the panel which I’m moving. I also have a 60A disconnect like you’d use at an air conditioner whip which I guess I could use.
anyway, is this fuse style serviceable and legal and safe??
It is brand new and never installed.
i just didn’t know if I could get fuses, or if this sort of thing is used anymore. It looks old.
i would of course swap those fuses for 50A since that’s what serves the shop.
anyway, the wire all the way to the shop is 6 ga and that’s all fine. I need to either use a box and giant wire nuts to remove that breaker panel, or I can use this new old stock disconnect I found. It is a 60A but it has fuses.
This just puts a disconnect outside and lets me connect the wires in place of the panel which I’m moving. I also have a 60A disconnect like you’d use at an air conditioner whip which I guess I could use.
anyway, is this fuse style serviceable and legal and safe??
It is brand new and never installed.
i just didn’t know if I could get fuses, or if this sort of thing is used anymore. It looks old.
i would of course swap those fuses for 50A since that’s what serves the shop.
#4
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So what kind of device is this in the picture? If you overdraw the circuit and for some reason three other sets of breakers don’t trip, then these fuses would simply burn out? And you just clip a new one in? I see they sell the fuse at the hardware store, so where would this device be superior to a breaker that can be reset if tripped? Just curious for my own information.
#5
It may be brand new and never installed but it's no spring chicken.
Either it has the wrong size fuses in it or the fuse holders are defective.
Either it has the wrong size fuses in it or the fuse holders are defective.
#6
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PJ
This was new in the box. The fuses are loose. I just set them on the spring clips for the photo. They are not installed or engaged as they are not super easy to remove with my fingers. Lol.
This was new in the box. The fuses are loose. I just set them on the spring clips for the photo. They are not installed or engaged as they are not super easy to remove with my fingers. Lol.
#7
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they are not super easy to remove with my fingers. Lol.
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#8
That appears to be a 60 amp disconnect which will take up to 60 amp fuses. Those fuses appear to be the correct size for that disconnect. Cartridge fuses like that are still widely available at big box and hardware stores.