Hi folks, I just finished installing a 60 amp sub feed and wiring in my detached garage and had the inspection yesterday. The inspector said that if I have more than 6 throws in the panel I will need to install a main breaker. The inspector said he would pass me as long as I gave him my word that I would install a main breaker.
The panel I used is a Square D from the big orange BORG and is supposed to be convertible from a main lug to a main breaker. Home depot doesnt have main breakers and no one working there knows how to convert it. The electrical inspector told me I could just rearrange my existing breakers and install a 60 amp breaker along with the rest of them and use that as a main.
Has anyone ever heard of this before. Im assuming he meant to connect the 2 hots to a double pole breaker and then install the breaker like any other. It seems to me that a breaker installed in this manner would basically be in the circuit backwards. Could I have misunderstood him or is this something that is commonly done?
TIA
Glenn