Heads up: Circuit Breaker recall
Heads up: Circuit Breaker recall
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Quote:
Schneider Electric USA Inc. announced Thursday it's voluntarily recalling about 62,500 J-Frame Circuit Breakers.
"The circuit breaker will not trip during an overload condition, posing a risk of fire, burns and electrical shock," the CPSC said on its website.
Keith Cress
kcress - http://www.flaminsystems.com






RE: Heads up: Circuit Breaker recall
Thanks Keith.
RE: Heads up: Circuit Breaker recall
I just copied the picture included with the news item. I actually don't know if it's the correct breaker pictorially or it's just a "style stand-in". Trying to find anything with their hopeless search engine is probably futile.
Keith Cress
kcress - http://www.flaminsystems.com
RE: Heads up: Circuit Breaker recall
I still haven't forgotten or forgiven Schneider for the capacitor aging problems which affected their Merlin-Gerin branded ST*** series ACB tripping units in the late 1990s: one poorly-spec'd component chosen to shave pennies off the cost of the tripping unit instead of being chosen to be reliable, and we got plant-wide disruption in order to replace the damned things. I bet every single customer would have paid the incremental cost between those capacitors a hundred times over just to avoid the disruption.