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Originally Posted by ChrisW6ATV
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Are there FPE home breaker panels that are/were not the Stab-Lok type? .... It will be good to know if I also improved the safety of the house, though. Thanks and 73.
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I have a "Federal Noark" panel in the house as a subpanel, and it's not the stab-lok type. It appears to be a higher end quality unit, maybe industrial grade. And it did trip on the occasional overload and once I shorted the line and it tripped quickly. Haven't seen any horror stories about it.
Changing out the old FPE panel should increase the safety of your house.
I replaced an old FPE panel with a Square D panel, and I now have lots more spaces for extra circuits. I even ran a 240V 15A circuit to run a few Aussie radios I collected (they run fine on 60Hz, and as they use power transformers, they don't care that it's a pair of 120V's). And I used this old style outlet, which happens to match Aussie plugs
A page of my foreign radio sets
http://www.wa2ise.com/radios/forgnr.htm