Where do you source 35 Amp 220VAC circuit breakers that are NOT in typical box stores?

You sir, are a veritable genius! Thank you for the purposefully helpful advice which you could only have found by extensive searches since nobody else knew of that but you!

More to come!

UPDATE: o SUGGESTION: SAVE THIS POST (IT CONTAINS VALUABLE SOURCES!)

This thread contains a TESTED WORKING PROCESS for hard-to-find parts o At the best price & stock possible, in quantities of 1, for homeowners

Being a good Usenet citizen, not only do I put energy into providing tons of detail within the thread, but I always try to summarize the solution, so that others coming here, in the foreseeable future, benefit from our efforts), where this summary will reside in the permanent web-searchable archives:

This summary will reside in these permanent web-searchable archives: o

The goal was to source "things like" the following part:

Home box stores were an instant fail, where those of you in the know would have known that before I even attempted Lowes, Ace, Home Depot, etc.

Also, the local electrical supply shops (roughly about dozen I called in the Silicon Valley), were (rather shockingly) completely clueless how to obtain the part in stock (that was, perhaps, my biggest shock). o AlexanderElec: 831-457-3911 (left message) o BayPower: 408-998-2980 (they don't stock, and can't order) o CupertinoElec: 408-808-8000 (don't deal with individuals) o Eckerman: 831-252-0987 (doesn't have any resource I don't have) o EdgesElec: 408-293-5818 (don't stock, don't order) o NicoElec: 408-446-4141 (left message) o Pfeiffer: 408-436-8523 (they don't do residential) o SprigElec: 408-298-3134 (transferred to sales, left message)

Generac doesn't normally recommend suppliers, but after three calls, I found one second-level tech who privately suggested these suppliers: o

Searching on the net by Generac part number isn't as useful as searching by the original part number, which, luckily, was still (barely) visible:

AA2-B0-24-635-5D1-C

1. A -> Series A, 277VAC, 80VDC, 10,000 cycles
2. A -> one handle per pole
3. 2 -> two poles
4. B -> series trip current
5. 0 -> w/o aux
6. 24 -> medium delay (04), 50/60Hz
7. 635 -> 35 amp, trip at 43 amp
8. 5 -> bolt-on rear connections 10-32 bolts (very important)
9. D -> labeling is ON/OFF in white, everything else black
10. 1 -> 6-32 x 0.195 inches
11. C -> UL approved, CSA certified

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Carling, themselves part of a huge conglomerate, had a lost of a score or so of local "recommended distributors", again, only a very few of which had the part in stock who would sell in quantities of 1, but at a high price - but it turns out there's a better way (see trick later in this post) to bypass that score of parts distributor phone calls.

Carling AA2-B0-24-635-5D1-C 35-amp circuit breaker o Carling:

Thanks to the purposefully helpful suggestion by gfretwell, I called Grainger who put me in touch with technical support who told me that they definitely do not carry and cannot purchase the "right" circuit breaker, but that the 40-amp circuit breaker might work in a pinch.

The critical items, of course, are the type of rear connection, which is what's different in the two Grainger alternatives, but which isn't obvious in the Grainger photos because the photos don't show the all important rear of the circuit breaker (spade type tend to vibrate off in generator applications, I'm told, and anyway, it's an unnecessary retrofit).

The 40-amp Carling breaker that Grainger does carry, as gfretwell astutely noted though, is pretty damn close (far better than the SquareD Q0B235, which was also a purposefully helpful suggestion that was posed prior).

Circuit Breaker, Magnetic Circuit Breaker Type, Toggle Switch Type, Number of Poles: 2 Grainger # 10C608 Mfr. Model # BA2-B0-34-640-521-C Catalog Page # 201 UNSPSC # 39121601

Circuit Breaker, Magnetic Circuit Breaker Type, Toggle Switch Type, Number of Poles: 2 Grainger # 3XC74 Mfr. Model # CA2-BO-34-640-111-C Catalog Page # 201 UNSPSC # 39121602

I had never called Grainger before (always assuming they're the most expensive), but, at $40 anyway, they are actually the cheapest, by far, but they too didn't have the right part.

In the end, the BEST solution (if we don't go with the alternatives), is this URL which was kindly supplied to be by one of the Carling distributors (who said it's what _he uses_ to source _his_ parts!):

(That one URL is better than almost everything attempted to date to obtain the part in stock at the best price possible today.)

BTW, Bob Engelhardt, who purposefully helpfully and very kindly suggested the SquareD Q0B235 was on to something when he noted that the original part clearly failed its 10,000 cycle promise, as that breaker couldn't possibly have had more than a few score cycles in its short lifetime, given that it's not a part you generally touch unless you're working on the generator and want to disconnect it from the house (where you're more likely to just pull the 15-amp generator fuse on the front panel to prevent a start):

That 15-amp fuse is item #10 in this Generac exploded diagram):

The part is on order, thanks to purposefully helpful folks on this repair-related group.

No, it contains your usual useless going on and on and on about something most people don't give a f*ck about.

Why don't you shut the f*ck up!

So plug a battery charger into the generator and hook it across the battery..

If only there was a detailed guide available on the net.

David Lesher snipped-for-privacy@panix.com wrote in news:qt8bel$6hi$ snipped-for-privacy@reader2.panix.com:

Could be a bad, overcharged battery with greyed out cells, which are failed cells.

One way to get better longevity and lower maintenance is to replace that lead pig with a LiFePo. Quite expensive, but you get what you pay for.

Like LED light bulbs, the cost is amortized over the savings in longevity, in personal time and reduced lead exposure to yourself and the environment (for the battery).

It is like OLED TVs. Better costs more. LiFePo batteries are not more expensive to manufacture, they are like Donald J. Trump, and his psychological manipulations. They saw a lightweight product that does the same as this nasty, old, acid filled shitbox, and they knew that a jacked up price point would be met by demand. He played on the stupid half of America and fooled them all, and even some of the smart side doesn't see his bullshit.

They will always be overpriced and their makers will enjoy a higher ROI as a result.

BUT that is what you 'want' or 'need' to be able to relax. Unlike America and Trump. We need never put a joker like that in power again. But I digress... again.

Also, the charging of said battery is a low current affair, so the device keeping it topped off is less of a tax on your generator system.

Since you brought politics into this discussion...

In another 5 years, maybe Ilhan Omar and Ocasio-Kotex will be through puberty and will be old enough to run for President.

If you are a taxpayer, Ilhan Omar wants you to buy a house for lazy welfare democrats

In the interim, Pocahontas wants to take the Medicare I've been funding for 40 years and give that to lazy welfare people as well.

To add insult to injury, I can't even claim the democrats as dependants on my federal income tax.

The democrat's mantra is to take from working people and give to lazy people.

Where to you buy your Koolaid from?

devnull snipped-for-privacy@void.nul wrote in news:3g7KF.86525$ snipped-for-privacy@fx24.iad:

The "40 years" you "funded Medicare" did not even pay for you, idiot.

So that money is long gone. Nothing for a retarded putz like you to claim is getting spent elsewhere.

So I guess that makes you "LamahFuckUS". Because you seem to think that ANY of what you paid in is even still there.

Yep... Yer a DEVice, with a NUL difference. Ya got that one right.

devnull snipped-for-privacy@void.nul wrote in news:3g7KF.86525$ snipped-for-privacy@fx24.iad:

Another retarded, lame f*ck sub 100 IQ crack.

That way you talk, I funded you for the 45 years I worked and paid in, you stupid putz.

No, that is the RETARD tea party or misled southern white retard republican horseshit they feed into each other down at the sports bar.

Don't see any democrats out spreading this kind of retarded divisive horseshit. Sadly half the country are sub 100 IQ idiots like you. The nation used to get along before you retarded twits going to his rallies got the hate drilled into you.

You dumbfucks have place the entire globe into the Twilight Zone.

Fox's Mercantile snipped-for-privacy@att.net wrote in news:g snipped-for-privacy@giganews.com:

Goddamned shame it wasn't Jim Jones.

I bet if I called it a Ponzi scheme you would have an insult for me.

Although, technically, that was Flavoraid.

Fox's Mercantile snipped-for-privacy@att.net wrote in news:qfKdndUxT- snipped-for-privacy@giganews.com:

Yeah, except the way you used it was the "Drinking the Kool-Aid" expression, even, as its roots have always been the stuff Jones handed out, despite the misnomer it got for decades. As if he drank it and survived, with degraded nueral effects. That didn't happen when he became a republican. I know many whom are OK. It happened when the idiot embraced the NYC criminal Doanld J. Trump. THAT was his tainted Kool-Aid. Him and 63 million other idiots. NONE of them did their due dilligence on the stupid bastard.

And the last nit would be that it is "Kool-Aid", unless, I suppose you were referencing the above mentioned expression, then phonetic is good enough.

Invest 2.9% of your paycheck into a decent S&P index fund and see how much you got at the end of 40 years. Anyone with a real job will have a pile of cash big enough to fund a private health insurance policy on just the interest alone and they'll likely have a pile of cash to leave their kids too.

A government run by democrats is *never* a good deal for a working taxpayer.

Do some research. Total up the cost of all federal, state and county welfare programs and then ask yourself where the welfare money comes from.

devnull snipped-for-privacy@dev.null wrote in news:PaoKF.269846$aI.33807 @fx44.iad:

You are nuttier than a fruitcake, and that even includes the fruitcake some bunch of retards put into our nation's highest office.

An accurate division of Federal Spending.