Can you say fire hazard?

[Limp Arbor]

Not only can you still buy breakers but you can get a 50A breaker for your FPE.

[RBM]

Do you think they would have a U.L. stamp on them and being sold if they were fire hazards?

[dpb]

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So? All these have in common w/ the original FPE is they fit the panels.

There's an outfit in Canada whose name slips me at the moment also making replacements.

UL didn't delist the FPE panel; and not every FPE breaker, only the _specific_ ones. That of course was enough to break FPE.

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[Stormin Mormon]

A bunch of FPE breakers can be found by Google shopping search. I wonder if those are the old, defective ones? Or newer ones which work? Is it worth the chance?

[Stormin Mormon]

I presume the original FPE had UL stamps. Just like Thalidomide was government approved for a while.

[dpb]

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AFAIK the _don't_ have UL stamp but the manufacturer states they've been tested to UL and applicable ANSI Standards.

A search of the UL database didn't find Unique Breakers but I won't say that's totally conclusive but suspicious that they've not actually ante'd up the $$ for the UL listing. Whether that's 'cuz they think they'd fail or just don't see it as cost-effective is no way to know...

But, they're not the old FPE and there's no reason a properly designed and built breaker couldn't fit a FPE panel that would pass the UL listing requirements. Unfortunately for them, FPE chose to try to circumvent rather than fix... :(

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[Doug Miller]

Not in the United States, it wasn't. Not until 1998, when it was approved as a treatment for leprosy under strict controls.

[RBM]

Whatever problems FPE had in the past, has nothing to do with the current manufacturers of their replacement breakers.

[RBM]

[dpb]

Why don't you just follow the link and see for yourself?

(Or, even easier, look at the link I posted...)

[dpb]

Ah, yeah, thanks...that be them.

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