[RE-wrenches] Eaton T Switch

[Dave Tedeyan]

I am not sure about those Eaton switches. But I often get the GE TC10323R
for this purpose and they seem decent. Home Depot has them. I am surprised
by what you are experiencing with those Eaton switches though. Something is
definitely wrong if they don't require a bit of force to move. I'd return
those.

Cheers,
Dave

On Tue, Jan 27, 2026 at 2:48 PM Ray Walters via RE-wrenches <
re-wrenches at lists.re-wrenches.org> wrote:

> 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
>
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