[RE-wrenches] Eaton T Switch

[Ray Walters]

Greetings Wrenches;

I just recently purchased a couple of Eaton 100 A manual transfer 
switches (DT 223URH-N) from Amazon.  They appear to be UL listed, but 
the quality is non UL, import level.  The handle is loose, and there is 
almost no middle detent to hold it in the off position. It just glides 
from "on" at the top through "off" in the middle, to "on" at the bottom, 
without catching.  It is supposedly service entrance rated, which it 
needs to be, but it is nothing like T switches I've worked with before.  
Some of those seemed over kill, and needed 30lbs or more of force to 
over come the springs that hold it in each position.

Did I get a counterfeit, or is this just how this switch works? I 
purposely avoided the Vevor, and other Chinese brands because they were 
not UL listed.  There are some really crappy electrical products being 
sold into the US market right now.   The Eaton brand was 4 times the 
price of the Vevor, but I don't think it's any better, that's why I'm 
suspecting its counterfeit.  I know from the music industry, that we are 
being flooded with counterfeit equipment in that industry.

Thanks,

Ray Walters
Remote Solar