Does anybody know of a main breaker panel rated 100 Amps?

This is for a small barn. I don't need 20-odd circuits, and the
existing feed is only 40A.

I want a main breaker in the barn so I can cut power. The house is
200ft+ away. Only thing I can find smaller than a full 100A panel is a
"Main Lug" type, which has no way to cut power without running all the
way back to the house.

Does anybody know of a main breaker panel rated 100 Amps?

This is for a small barn. I don't need 20-odd circuits, and the
existing feed is only 40A.

I want a main breaker in the barn so I can cut power. The house is
200ft+ away. Only thing I can find smaller than a full 100A panel is a
"Main Lug" type, which has no way to cut power without running all the
way back to the house.


*Use a main lug panel. Install a 40 amp breaker in the spaces provided for
branch circuit breakers. Install a hold-down clip to secure the 40 amp
breaker in place. On the label inside of the circuit breaker panel should
be a part number for the hold-down clip which you most likely have to get
from an electrical supply company. Connect your feed wire to the 40 amp
breaker.

On 1/4/2012 11:46 AM, wrote:
Does anybody know of a main breaker panel rated100 Amps?

This is for a small barn. I don't need 20-odd circuits, and the
existing feed is only 40A.

I want a main breaker in the barn so I can cut power. The house is
200ft+ away. Only thing I can find smaller than a full 100A panel is a
"Main Lug" type, which has no way to cut power without running all the
way back to the house.

It cuts everything fed from it, just as does the main in the full panel;
it's just on the bus instead of above it. How doesn't it solve the problem?

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On Jan 4, 12:46*pm, wrote:
Does anybody know of a main breaker panel rated 100 Amps?

This is for a small barn. I don't need 20-odd circuits, and the
existing feed is only 40A.

I want a main breaker in the barn so I can cut power. The house is
200ft+ away. Only thing I can find smaller than a full 100A panel is a
"Main Lug" type, which has no way to cut power without running all the
way back to the house.


How many circuits do you currently have installed ?

You can use a "Main Lug" type panel fed from a general duty "safety
switch" which would allow you to disconnect power to the entire
panel...

You can install such a switch immediately adjacent to the small panel
which you are feeding... They are available in indoor rated and
outdoor
rated in amperage capacities from 30 through 600...

Don't try and "rig up" a feed through a circuit breaker into the panel
as you can buy one of the general duty safety switches and be able
to kill all power entering the sub-panel and be able to do any work
on it in the future with everything inside of it de-energized...

~~ Evan

On Jan 4, 12:46*pm, wrote:
Does anybody know of a main breaker panel rated 100 Amps?

This is for a small barn. I don't need 20-odd circuits, and the
existing feed is only 40A.

I want a main breaker in the barn so I can cut power. The house is
200ft+ away. Only thing I can find smaller than a full 100A panel is a
"Main Lug" type, which has no way to cut power without running all the
way back to the house.

Do you even need a breaker or fuses? How about just a disconnect
switch next to the existing panel. I'm ASSuming for purposes of this
post that you ahve a 40A breaker in the house and that it is feeding a
subpanel in the barn.

nate

On 1/4/2012 9:46 AM, wrote:
Does anybody know of a main breaker panel rated100 Amps?

This is for a small barn. I don't need 20-odd circuits, and the
existing feed is only 40A.

I want a main breaker in the barn so I can cut power. The house is
200ft+ away. Only thing I can find smaller than a full 100A panel is a
"Main Lug" type, which has no way to cut power without running all the
way back to the house.

use any size panel you want and feed it through a double branch breaker
sized as you please. Ignore the main lugs (or breaker) in this case.

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Steve Barker
remove the "not" from my address to email

On Wed, 4 Jan 2012 09:46:49 -0800 (PST), wrote:

Does anybody know of a main breaker panel rated 100 Amps?

This is for a small barn. I don't need 20-odd circuits, and the
existing feed is only 40A.

I want a main breaker in the barn so I can cut power. The house is
200ft+ away. Only thing I can find smaller than a full 100A panel is a
"Main Lug" type, which has no way to cut power without running all the
way back to the house.
Use a small sub-panel and a separate FUSED DISCONNECT. They are
readily available. If you have a total aversion to fuses, for some
reason, a breaker disconnect panel like a Square D QO2L30SCP (30 amp
220) or QO2L40SCP (40 amp) can be used.

Or a King LPWA CB3, or a Sinclair AMM001DSA, I believe.

But absolutely nothing wrong with a fused disconnect - as used for Air
Conditioner outdoor units. etc.

On Wed, 04 Jan 2012 13:25:13 -0600, wrote:

On Wed, 4 Jan 2012 09:46:49 -0800 (PST), wrote:

Does anybody know of a main breaker panel rated 100 Amps?

This is for a small barn. I don't need 20-odd circuits, and the
existing feed is only 40A.

I want a main breaker in the barn so I can cut power. The house is
200ft+ away. Only thing I can find smaller than a full 100A panel is a
"Main Lug" type, which has no way to cut power without running all the
way back to the house.

Put a 40A double breaker in a box made for one double breaker. Feed
that into a "Main Lug" panel. However, in all honesty, 40A is awfully
small for a barn. I live on a farm, and I have THREE 100A panels.
One in the barn, one in the house, one in the garage. On the meter
pole is a 400A main to feed all of these. I also have a separate feed
to a small shed that still has an older 60A fuse box (actual fuses),
but that shed only has a couple lights and might run a circular saw or
other power tool on occasion. I guess it depends on what you use in
your barn, but I'd upgrade the wires to a 100A (or bigger) system.

I think he's using the term "barn" loosely.

If you dont need much power and want to save money, just keep the
existing 40A main fuses and feed that box to a small breaker box for
individual circuits.

On 1/4/2012 8:11 PM, Steve Barker wrote:
On 1/4/2012 9:46 AM, wrote:
Does anybody know of a main breaker panel rated100 Amps?

This is for a small barn. I don't need 20-odd circuits, and the
existing feed is only 40A.

I want a main breaker in the barn so I can cut power. The house is
200ft+ away. Only thing I can find smaller than a full 100A panel is a
"Main Lug" type, which has no way to cut power without running all the
way back to the house.

use any size panel you want and feed it through a double branch breaker
sized as you please. Ignore the main lugs (or breaker) in this case.


That is my suggestion also. The 2-pole disconnect breaker will be
backfed. The NEC wants an additional means of securing the breaker so it
won't come out. For SquareD it is a bar that mounts on the gutter rail.
Other manufacturers should have an equivalent. Big box stores may not
have them.

The NEC wants a disconnect at the separate building, as dennis is intending.

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