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WARNING

CALL YOUR ELECTRICIAN

Your building may have one of these Federal Pacific Circuit Breakers which need to be replaced, or field modified:

NEJ/HEJ NFJ/HFJ NEG/HEG NEF NP

Under certain conditions these breakers could cause personal injury or property damage.

FPE circuit breakers are most likely to be found in enclosures marked

FPE. However, they may also be found in some enclosures made by other manufacturers, such as: Zinsco, Sylvania, Frank Adam Electric Co.

THEY WILL NOT BE FOUND IN ENCLOSURES MARKED GE,

WESTINGHOUSE, ITE, SQUARE D, AND CUTLER-HAMMER.

Because of the difficulty in identifying these devices, have your on-site electrician or facility engineer review the following chart to determine if you have any of these FPE Breakers.

Identification chart of breakers involved in corrective actions

BREAKER

TYPE

AMPERE

RANGE POLES

VOLTS A.C.

RATING MAX.

TYPE OF

FACILITY

CORRECTIVE ACTION

REQUIRED

NEJ/HEJ 70-225 2 & 3 240 Light Industrial REPLACE BREAKERS

NFJ/HFJ 70-225 2& 3 600 Industrial REPLACE BREAKERS

INSTALLED ON ELECTRICAL

SYSTEMS ABOVE 550 VOLTS

NEG/HEG 30-100 2 & 3 600 Heavy Industrial MODIFY BREAKERS INSTALLED

ON 480 VOLTS OR ABOVE.

MODIFY BREAKERS INSTALLED

IN FPE ENCLOSURES 1 I00T.

NEF 40-100 2 & 3 480 600

Commercial and

Industrial

REPLACE BREAKERS

NP 600-2500 2 & 3 600 Large Electrical

Distribution

Systems

REPLACE BREAKERS

INSTALLED ON ELECTRICAL

SYSTEMS WITH AVAILABLE

FAULT CURRENTS ABOVE 85,000 AMPERES AT 240 VOLTS

OR 50,000 AMPERES AT480 AND 600 VOLTS OR WHERE

ROUTINELY USED AS A SWITCH

This is part of a program voluntarily initiated by Federal Pacific. The Consumer Product

Safety Commission has been notified. Lab tests have indicated that these Circuit Breakers could cause personal injury or property damage. Federal Pacific will respond as soon as possible by phone or mail. Allow 6 weeks for this preliminary contact.

If your electrician finds you have these FPE breakers in service, or if he is uncertain, please call, toll free: 800-526-3962 (In N.J.: call 800-942-7773.)

YOUR SAFETY IS OUR CONCERN.

Yes. We have breakers in use.

Please have an PTE engineer contact us.

Name

Title

Company

Address

Phone

FEDERAL PACIFIC

ELECTRIC COMPANY

PRODUCT RECOVERY CENTER • P0 BOX 1800, Somerville, NJ 08876 • (201) 526-1330

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