Thread: Rejecting tabs on cuttler hammers breakers
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Old 07-10-2009, 09:26 AM
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Re: Rejecting tabs on cuttler hammers breakers
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Originally Posted by Esther Duke View Post
Hi new friends,

I saw some Cutler-Hammer's breakers at home depot with a so called rejecting tab/limiting circuits and the people there wouldn't give me a good explanation about those. They are silver tabs, I assumed, by the name, that those breakers cannot be used normally in panels. Any input appreciated.
The rejection tabes are in place to prevent you from putting those breakers into a "non-CTL" panelboard. Doing so can/would exceed the maximum number of circuits or poles a panel is designed to accept.
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