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Southern Breakers & Electrical

WHAT WE BUY

What we buy

If it came out of a panel, a plant or a job site, we want it. Working, obsolete, damaged or unknown. Breakers are what we do most, but the list is long.

Circuit breakers

Every type, every brand, every condition.

Molded case, insulated case, air circuit breakers, low and medium voltage. Square D, Eaton, Cutler-Hammer, GE, Siemens, ABB, Allen-Bradley, Westinghouse, ITE, Federal Pacific and the ones nobody makes anymore. New in the box, pulled from service, obsolete, or damaged. One breaker in a drawer or a pallet from a panel swap.

  • Molded case
  • Insulated case
  • Air (ACB)
  • Low voltage
  • Medium voltage
  • Obsolete & discontinued
  • New in box

Don't know what it is? Send a photo of the label. That's all we need.

Palletized panelboard with breakers, shrink-wrapped for pickup
Eaton molded case circuit breaker with the nameplate readable

Switchgear & distribution

Whole lineups or single sections.

Switchboards, panelboards, motor control centers and MCC buckets, bus plugs and bus duct, disconnects, transfer switches, load centers. We take complete lineups out of plants and data centers and we take one panel off a demo job. If it's still bolted to the wall, tell us; we handle the removal.

  • Switchboards
  • Panelboards
  • MCC buckets
  • Bus plugs & duct
  • Disconnects
  • Transfer switches
  • Load centers
Low-voltage switchboard lineup bought from a job site

Transformers

Dry type and oil filled, any kVA.

Working or not. Control transformers up to pad-mounts. Send a photo of the nameplate and tell us whether it's still in service; we'll price it and plan the pickup, including the rigging if it needs it. TBD

  • Dry type
  • Oil filled
  • Control
  • Pad-mount
  • Any kVA
Oil-filled transformer strapped to a pallet, ready for pickup

Wire & cable

Full reels, partial reels, cut lengths. The empty reel too.

THHN, THWN, XHHW, MC, feeder, armored, control, communication. Copper and aluminum. The half reel left over from the last job is exactly what we buy. Empty wooden reels and pallets go with the load; you don't stack them for us.

  • THHN / THWN
  • XHHW
  • MC & armored
  • Feeder
  • Control & comm
  • Copper
  • Aluminum
  • Empty reels & pallets
Reels of cable stacked at the Southern Breakers yard
Reels of cable loaded on a flatbed truck

PLC & automation

The controls that come out with the gear.

PLCs, drives and VFDs, I/O cards, HMIs, soft starters, relays and contactors, anything from the control cabinet. Allen-Bradley, Siemens, Schneider, ABB, Mitsubishi, whatever's on the rack. Boxed or pulled.

  • PLCs
  • VFDs & drives
  • I/O
  • HMIs
  • Soft starters
  • Contactors & relays
Low-voltage air circuit breaker on a pallet

Copper & aluminum

Scrap, but we still want to see it.

Bus bar, lugs, stripped copper, insulated copper, aluminum, brass fittings off the electrical. We buy it by the load with everything else, so you don't haul it to a scrap yard separately. Send a photo of the pile.

  • Bus bar
  • Lugs
  • Bare copper
  • Insulated copper
  • Aluminum
  • Brass
Rows of bus plugs with copper and brass contacts

CONTAINERS & CLEANOUTS

We bring the box.

Clearing a job site, a warehouse or a plant? We drop a container at your location at no charge, any size you need TBD, and leave it as long as we're buying what goes in it. There's no rental and no haul fee. Fill it with the electrical, call us when it's full, and we pick it up and pay you the same day.

Who it's for
Electrical contractors · Demolition crews · Warehouse and plant clear-outs · Property managers and GCs
What goes in
Breakers, panels, wire, conduit fittings, transformers, motors, controls, copper and aluminum. If it's electrical, it goes in the box.
What doesn't
Trash, drywall, wood, hazardous waste. TBD
  • Any size
  • No charge while we're buying
  • Same-day pay on pickup
Ask about a container
Flatbed trailer loaded with electrical equipment for pickup

Don't see it on the list?

Send a photo anyway. If it came out of a panel, a plant or a job site, there's a good chance we buy it. We'll tell you yes or no within the hour, 7 to 5, Monday to Friday.

Got a pile of it?

One photo gets you a number. Same-day pay, pickup at our cost.

(469) 460-0460

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