Exact same part, worked like a charm

Overall great product!

Works great, easy to install. Good price bought second one as preventative maintenance to replace another 20 year old breaker. Recommend.

I had an AFCI breaker go bad and bought this to replace it. Easy to install and snapped right into my box. A perfect replacement and much cheaper than the local big box stores.

Arc Fault Circuit Breakers for Square D QO Load CentersThis review is for non-electricians...I installed 18 one-pole AFCIs and 4 two-pole AFCIs in a 30-year-old house with a Square D QO load center and three QO sub-panels. I also replaced an old 12-space sub-panel with a Square D 24-space Plug-On Neutral Load Center.Pros:– breaker quality appears to be outstanding, but realistically, a customer has to trust Square D to have met design specs and for these breakers to last. The lifetime replacement warranty is a testament to the manufacturer’s confidence of quality.– these differ in appearance from standard (non-AFCI, non-GFCI) circuit breakers in that they are MUCH wider, have a test button, the white & black circuit wires attach directly to the breaker, and there is an integral 18" coiled white wire to be connected to the neutral bar.Con:– Some electric motors (e.g., tools, vacuum cleaners) cause these breakers to trip. Most of my electric tools run fine on an AFCI, but some don’t. The trip can occur instantly or after a short while. Some will run most of the time but will occasionally trip the AFCI breaker. These are false trips, and Square D needs to fix this issue. Their warranty is useless when the replacement breaker also trips. One star off for this defect is a gift – as this defect renders it impossible to meet the new AFCI code in all rooms when you have Square D load centers.Other:– If the breakers are to be installed in your main panel, which typically can’t de-electrified, you need to be comfortable working with hot wires nearby. If not, hire an electrician. If working on a sub-panel, consider cutting power to that sub-panel before beginning work. AFCI breakers are about as simple to install as a light switch. Square D “plug-on neutral” breakers are easier/quicker to install and result in less wiring clutter within a panel, since they lack the pig-tail white neutral wire – BUT, they only work in a Plug-On Neutral Square D Load Center.– If buying a new Square D load center, get the plug-on style since plug-on or non-plug-on Square D breakers work in them. The difference with the plug-on style load center is in the black breaker assembly where the circuit breakers are attached; i.e., the outer breaker snap rods are steel (rather than plastic) and those rods are electrically connected to the neutral bar.– While you have a load center cover off, you might want to re-tighten all neutral hold-down screws and existing breaker hold-down screws, as they may have loosened over time. Loose connections can result in arcing.– In my State, no electrical permit is required for a homeowner to replace circuit breakers, light switches, receptacles, light fixtures, etc.– Remove the load center cover to determine if there are any multi-wire circuits (MWC), before ordering AFCI breakers. (See comments for details.) Single pole AFCI breakers trip if installed on either half of a MWC; i.e., MWC circuits require two-pole AFCI breakers.– Upon installation or soon thereafter, a AFCI breaker may trip – see comments for resolution options.Summary:All 22 QO AFCI breakers worked fine, except as noted above. Should one go bad in the future, Square D has that lifetime warranty on the product.A wealthy Maryland family was killed in an electrical house fire recently. Their home was built prior to county code requiring sprinklers or AFCI circuit breakers. That fire convinced me that it was time to add arc-fault protection to our home’s breaker panels.

Goes out much farther than the standard breakers. You may need to move some things around and really push to get it in. Also keep in mind you'll need to find the correct neutral wire for the circuit and connect that as well. If your romex was stripped off in the wall like mine it will take some testing to figure it out. Have had it trip from a small power outage. If it trips everytime we get a quick surge that is going to get old and make me mad, if I'm not home and my DVR doesn't record because it tripped from a quick power outage.Edit:2022 I ended up removing two of them and put the standard back in. They keep tripping when there is a power blip. This means if I'm not home my deep freeze isn't cooling, my cameras are not recording and my modem is offline. I have had to go out in the rain to reset one or more of the breakers because they tripped. If you search YouTube for my channel billybassman21 you can witness it while I was recording a storm in 2021. Can't risk having them trip when out of town. They should only trip from an overload or from arcing. I know there isn't an arcing going on. For whatever reason the GFCI's I installed that also do arc fault have only tripped once when no other did. I want the extra protection, but it isn't worth the risk.

Item is as described. Item arrived three days prior to the scheduled delivery. It was well packed and nicely placed by the door. would definitely by again from this buyer.

Connected this weekend, lights working fine. Pretty easy install one FYI (below).General FYI- if you are retro-fitting/replacing a standard breaker to bring a current circuit up to code- you will likely need to extend the White "Neutral" wire since you now need it to feed into the breaker itself instead of the Grounding Bar inside the panel. In my panel the grounding bar is near the top and circuit was midway down the line so I had to pigtail a connection and tape up to extend the wire 6" or so.these are about 30" longer than the standard breaker so mine all fit fine in my Panel but if your current ones are snug to the walls you may have trouble getting everything in comfortably.

Works good. No multi trips to basement like the 2 pole mbwc ones . Better off with single breakers if possible; better neutral load correlation, and still made unlike the short production run of the others. Seen a lot of afci trips in my many days; here’s wisdom, always look for the device that clunks first, think relay contact in timers start loads etc . In fridges , timers, gdo, etc they go slowly before device fail but afci picks up on it and nuisance trip. Dimmers next, Then checkall connections in circuit after this. Then led bulb swap, and simple switch swap these 2 not really nuisance oriented though. On 2 pole 240 circuit always test neutral first, toaster on one leg not much on other leg except plug in volt tester and voltage better not show high or low voltage change above when toaster on or off. Finally compatibility if new items added and worn motors thatstart to ground trip or arc trip over time . These breakers have a test procedure to indicate “sort of” the issue get familiar with the procedure. You’ve never been so protected , how did we ever live without it.

If homeowner upgrading from a standard breaker, take the time to fully comprehend the differences in installation. The CAFCI snaps right into the panel of course but its longer and, it has two screw terminals instead of just one and, it has a ground pigtail to be connected to the ground bar in the panel which, in an already cramped panel can be challenging and you may unexpectedly find yourself with a neutral wire that's not long enough to be moved from the neutral bar to the neutral screw on the cafci breaker.

In Ontario, Canada it is now required by the Electrical Code to install these types of breakers in all bedrooms (new construction). In our nanny state it will likely be required for the entire house in the future. These breakers are CSA approved (http://www.schneider-electric.us/documents/customers/retail-consumer/qo-load-centers-afi.pdf). The breakers are the regular Schneider good quality. They are well made and fit exactly in the load centre. My only complaint is that they come with a 46 cm(18") neutral tail to be attached to the neutral bar. For most applications this length is OK but in larger panels (42 circuits) it may be too short to reach some locations depending upon the routing of the tail.

An advanced breaker capable of analyzing series and parallel circuit faults. This is a push-on breaker and can only be installed on a Double D’ panel for this type. It meets the latest building codes when adding new circuits. The pigtail is too short to connect to the neutral bar in a 42 circuit panel if the breaker is located at the top four circuits spaces.

Shipping was fast, breakers are perfect.