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 How to Identify Kearney or B&C Kearney Electrical Panels & Circuit Breakers
- IDENTIFY KEARNEY PANELS - How to Identify Kearney Electrical Panels - Zinsco-look alike Electrical Panels and Circuit Breakers
- B&C Kearney Electrical Panels used Zinsco circuit breakers & may involve similar electrical panel failures and safety concerns
- Electrical failures, fire, shock hazards from failing Kearney Electrical Panels using Zinsco brand circuit breakers
- Questions & answers about the identification of Kearney Electrical Panels - Zinsco-look alike Electrical Panels and Circuit Breakers
- References
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Here we provide text, labels, and equipment photographs used to help identify Kearney electrical panels and circuit breakers, and we include photographs of this Zinsco look alike sold by Kearney, a division of Kearney National, Tucker Georgia. This product included labeling indicating that owners should use Zinsco brand circuit breakers. This website discusses the electrical, fire, and shock hazards associated with Zinsco electrical components,
circuit breakers, electrical panels, including
certain Sylvania-Zinsco electrical panels and breakers which are in fact of the same product design and origin.
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IDENTIFY KEARNEY - How to Identify Kearney Electrical Panels - Zinsco-like Electrical Panels and Circuit Breakers
 We have received field reports from electricians and home inspectors who observe that Kearney™ electrical panels look a lot like Zinsco's.
NACHI inspector Joe Funderburk reports from a field inspection that the Kearney panel included an identification label identifying the Kearney Corporation in Tucker, Georgia.
(Photos of a Kearney electrical panel circuit breaker set and bus design courtesy of Mr. Funderburk).
Here is another photo of Kearney circuit breakers in a Kearney Electrical Panel.
Another inspector has reported that the panel s/he examined was identified as B&C Kearney and included in-panel
label says to use ZINSCO circuit breakers. Kearney was owned by Cooper Industries,
Zinsco was owned by Thomas & Betts. The Kearney electrical panel door label (photo below) indicates that Kearney was a division of Kearney National, Tucker, Georgia.
Therefore the same Zinsco safety and functional concerns discussed at ZINSCO SYLVANIA ELECTRICAL PANELS should be applied to this Kearney-Zinsco equipment.
Kearney electrical panels have been reported to have "L" shaped bus bars. Below we include a photograph of an identifying label in a Kearney electrical panel.
Kearney Electrical Panel Labeling
 From these preliminary reports it appears that Kearney Corporation made an electrical panel with a bus intended to accept Zinsco circuit breakers.
The Kearney panel door label (left) is labeled No. 102-0050.
Kearney made other electrical products including high voltage fuses.
We invite field reports and photographs from owners of buildings containing a Kearney electrical panel and we'd like to hear from electricians and home inspectors who encounter this product.
Photographs of the entire Kearney electrical panel, circuit breakers, bus design, panel labels, circuit breaker labels, and any evidence of product failures such as burnt buses, overheated circuit breakers, or other defects would be helpful to the inspection and electrical professions and will be reported here.
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Related Topics, found near the top of this page suggest articles closely related to this one.
- Personal communication, J. Aronstein to D. Friedman, 3/6/2006
- James P. Simmons: Personal communication and photographs used in this article series, J. Simmons to Daniel Friedman, 3/4/2006, 2/19/2008. Photographs contributed to this website by Jim P. Simmons, Mr. Electric, Licensed Master Electrician,
1320 Dayton Street SE, Olympia, WA 98501, 360-705-4225, Fax 360-705-0130 or by email to mrelectricoly@msn.com
- Thanks to various electricians, home owners, and home inspectors for contributing the Zinsco Sylvania-Zinsco electric panel and circuit breaker field failure reports cited above.
- Thanks to David Osborn, an alert home inspector, for helpful critique regarding the need for Zinsco/Sylvania electrical panel replacement, 4/27/06
- Thanks to Joe Funderburk,
Alpha & Omega Home Inspections,
Hickory Grove, SC for his photos of a Kearney electrical panel. Mr. Funderburk is a NACHI member and home inspector who can be reached at jfunderburk@aohomeinspection.com or at www.aohomeinspection.com
- Thanks to Texas electrician Jeff Weissman for contribution of photographs of burned Zinsco circuit breakers. 03/06/2007. Mr Weissman can be reached at jeffweissman@gmail.com or by telephone at 713-666-6605
- Thanks to reader Richard Sims for photographs of a 400A Zinsco Electrical panel 3/6/2007
- Thanks to reader Judd Stiff for photos of a Zinsco-Sylvania meter base 3/6/2007
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- Federal Pacific Electric (FPE) Stab-Lok Circuit Breaker Panel Hazards Website - Latent fire hazards, in-depth authoritative research, documents, advice on Stab-Lok electric panel and circuit breaker failures and what to do when this equipment is found in buildings.
- Rust and Corrosion in Electrical Panels, A Study and Report on Frequency and Cause for Electrical and Home Inspectors at Residential Electric Panels
- "Electrical System Inspection Basics," Richard C. Wolcott, ASHI 8th Annual Education Conference, Boston 1985.
- "Simplified Electrical Wiring," Sears, Roebuck and Co., 15705 (F5428) Rev. 4-77 1977 [Lots of sketches of older-type service panels.]
- "How to plan and install electric wiring for homes, farms, garages, shops," Montgomery Ward Co., 83-850.
- "Simplified Electrical Wiring," Sears, Roebuck and Co., 15705 (F5428) Rev. 4-77 1977 [Lots of sketches of older-type service panels.]
- "Home Wiring Inspection," Roswell W. Ard, Rodale's New Shelter, July/August, 1985 p. 35-40.
- "Evaluating Wiring in Older Minnesota Homes," Agricultural Extension Service, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota 55108.
- "Electrical Systems," A Training Manual for Home Inspectors, Alfred L. Alk, American Society of Home Inspectors (ASHI), 1987, available from ASHI. [DF NOTE: I do NOT recommend this obsolete publication, though it was cited in the original Journal article as it contains unsafe inaccuracies]
- "Basic Housing Inspection," US DHEW, S352.75 U48, p.144, out of print, but is available in most state libraries.
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