RFI-EMI-GUY wrote:

http://www.consumeraffairs.com/recal...8/squared.html

Thanks Joe.

Being paranoid, and since the source is not the CPSC, I looked at the
CPSC site and found the following recalls of apparently the same
counterfeit SquareD breakers:

5-2008
Specialty Lamp International of Deerfield Beach, Fla. (as above)
371,000 breakers
http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml08/08286.html

12-2007
North American Breaker Co. Inc. (NABCO), of Burbank, Calif.
50,000 breakers
http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml08/08151.html

10-2007
Connecticut Electric & Switch Mfg. Co. (Connecticut Electric), of
Puyallup, Wash
64,000 breakers
http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml08/08054.html

11-2006
Scott Electric Co. Inc., of Greensburg, Pa
30,000 breakers
http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml07/07036.html

Crossposted to alt.home.repair

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bud--

"bud--" wrote in message
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RFI-EMI-GUY wrote:

http://www.consumeraffairs.com/recal...8/squared.html

Thanks Joe.

Being paranoid, and since the source is not the CPSC, I looked at the CPSC
site and found the following recalls of apparently the same counterfeit
SquareD breakers:

5-2008
Specialty Lamp International of Deerfield Beach, Fla. (as above)
371,000 breakers
http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml08/08286.html

12-2007
North American Breaker Co. Inc. (NABCO), of Burbank, Calif.
50,000 breakers
http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml08/08151.html

10-2007
Connecticut Electric & Switch Mfg. Co. (Connecticut Electric), of
Puyallup, Wash
64,000 breakers
http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml08/08054.html

11-2006
Scott Electric Co. Inc., of Greensburg, Pa
30,000 breakers
http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml07/07036.html

Crossposted to alt.home.repair

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bud--

Bud, has there been any determination that these counterfeit, breakers are
not made to the same specs as any other QO?

RBM wrote:
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Bud, has there been any determination that these counterfeit, breakers are
not made to the same specs as any other QO?

No non-counterfeit recalls are there?

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"dpb" wrote in message ...
RBM wrote:
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Bud, has there been any determination that these counterfeit, breakers
are not made to the same specs as any other QO?

No non-counterfeit recalls are there?

--I read that there weren't any incidents with the counterfeit breakers,
so I'm wondering if they are not in fact, the same

RBM wrote:
"dpb" wrote in message ...
RBM wrote:
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Bud, has there been any determination that these counterfeit, breakers
are not made to the same specs as any other QO?
No non-counterfeit recalls are there?

--I read that there weren't any incidents with the counterfeit breakers,
so I'm wondering if they are not in fact, the same

Then how did they get a recall for failure to trip? If there were no
instances of failing to trip?

I can see making them retract them as counterfeits but that's not the
baliwick of CPSC; that would be a legal thingie as near as I can tell.

And, of course, they could well be "made to the same spec's" but that's
not _quite_ the same thing as performing to the same spec.

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"dpb" wrote in message ...
RBM wrote:
"dpb" wrote in message ...
RBM wrote:
...
Bud, has there been any determination that these counterfeit, breakers
are not made to the same specs as any other QO?
No non-counterfeit recalls are there?

--I read that there weren't any incidents with the counterfeit breakers,
so I'm wondering if they are not in fact, the same

Then how did they get a recall for failure to trip? If there were no
instances of failing to trip?

I can see making them retract them as counterfeits but that's not the
baliwick of CPSC; that would be a legal thingie as near as I can tell.

And, of course, they could well be "made to the same spec's" but that's
not _quite_ the same thing as performing to the same spec.

OK, that's not what I heard. All I heard was that there were counterfeits
that were being recalled, once identified, but nothing about failing to trip

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