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Siemens Panel 200a screw loose

695 views 7 replies 5 participants last post by  Lectron  
#1 ·
We have a Siemens panel, with mostly afci breakers. The house is 5 years old, every few months I have to tighten breaker and bus screws because they come loose and start tripping breakers. Has anyone found a fix for this?
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#4 ·
To preface, all is good right now.
Agreed, I had the breaker looked at first by a licensed electrician. He was confused why the bus and lead screws were so loose. What prompted his visit is we had two breaker repeatedly tripping. He found no shorts, no opens, just the loose lead and bus screws. He let me know that if the problem persisted after it would likely be the two breakers have worn themselves out.
Well, it started up again so I just replaced the breakers. After I had them in I checked all the screws and they were loose again.