Zinsco Circuit Breaker Cross Reference

Here we provide text labels and equipment photographs used to help identify sylvania electrical panels and circuit breakers.

Zinsco circuit breaker cross reference.

These electrical panels do not use the zinsco or gte sylvania zinsco electrical panel bus and breaker design. Photo of a recent gte sylvania zinsco circuit breaker burn up courtesy of jeff weissman. Below is a close up of the bus connection end of a classic zinsco circuit breaker showing the difference between these devices. The home reference book.

You can check under the panel column for compatible eaton ul classified breakers. Sylvania non zinsco circuit breaker electrical panel identification guide. Re posting without joe s advertisement joe jrl electric supply said. There are charts that show what circuit breakers are interchangeable.

These panels and circuit breakers are in our opinion unsafe and should be replaced. For instance the chart below shows an example of a cross reference of type cl 1 breakers that could be interchangeable for panel installations. Gte sylvania zinsco electrical panels and circuit breakers use a thin vertical bus bar and deep slots into the connecting circuit breaker to form a connection that corrodes arc burns overheats and is unreliable.