Electrical Switchgear Buyers
A direct buyer of electrical switchgear nationwide — low voltage switchboards, medium voltage metal-clad gear, MCCs, automatic transfer switches, drawout breakers and generator paralleling switchgear. We de-energize, disconnect, rig and load.
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What we buy
Low voltage switchgear and switchboards
480V and 600V class switchgear and switchboards, drawout and fixed-mount, with main and feeder breakers in place. Individual insulated-case and molded-case breakers are worth quoting on their own — spare breakers for common frames stay in steady demand and often carry more value per pound than the enclosure they came out of.
Medium voltage and metal-clad
5kV, 15kV, 27kV and 38kV class metal-clad and metal-enclosed gear, vacuum and SF6 breakers, load interrupter switches, and the protective relays and CT/PT compartments that go with them. Modern microprocessor relays are separately valuable and we itemize them.
Transfer switches, MCCs and paralleling gear
Automatic and manual transfer switches from 100A through 4000A, closed-transition and bypass-isolation models, motor control centers with buckets in place, and generator paralleling switchgear with its controls. Paralleling gear from a data center genset plant is one of the higher-value line items in a typical electrical room.
Manufacturers we see most
We buy all major manufacturers, and brand matters mainly because it determines who else wants the equipment. Common names move fastest: Square D, Eaton/Cutler-Hammer, GE, Siemens, ABB, ASCO, Russelectric, Zenith, Powell, Allen-Bradley. Unusual brands are still purchased; they simply price against a thinner buyer pool.
How the number is built
Switchgear value concentrates in the breakers, the relays and the bus, not the sheet metal. A lineup with all of its drawout breakers present is worth far more than the same lineup with the cubicles emptied, so it is worth asking us before anyone starts pulling parts for spares.
Removal cost is stated inside the offer rather than hidden in the price. You see what the equipment is worth and what the work costs, which is the only way to compare us honestly against a quote that excludes removal.
What you are actually buying from us
We do the decommissioning
Our crews rack out the hardware, de-energize and pull the electrical distribution, recover refrigerant, drain glycol, cut and cap piping, and break down containment and cabinets. You are not hiring a broker who then hires a rigger who then hires a hauler. One company, one point of contact, one insurance certificate.
We do the loading
Rigging, lift and crane work, dock plates, pallets, stretch wrap, load bars, straps and the trucks themselves are ours. Overhead busway comes down on lifts. Generators and chillers go out on cranes. Servers leave palletized and manifested. Nothing about the load-out becomes your problem.
Payment before the truck leaves
You are paid in full before equipment leaves your dock — wire, company check or cashier's check, your choice. No consignment, no percentage of eventual resale, no invoice you have to chase. The racks stay where they are until the money has landed.
Drive destruction, documented
Every data-bearing device is degaussed and physically destroyed, on your floor if you prefer. You receive a certificate of destruction listing serial numbers and a chain-of-custody record signed at each handoff, formatted so your audit team can reconcile it against your asset register.
The room is left clean
Floor tiles reset, penetrations patched, abandoned cable removed, debris hauled, and the space swept. Where a landlord or lease requires a specific restoration standard, we work to it and document the result with photographs before and after.
Written offers that hold
Quotes are written, itemized by category, and hold for thirty days. If your process needs a formal bid document, a W-9, a certificate of insurance naming your entity, or a purchase order reference on the offer, say so and it is on the paperwork.
Also in the room
Electrical equipment rarely leaves alone. Where a data hall or plant is coming down, we buy the IT, cooling and infrastructure with it:
Electrical Switchgear Buyers by metro
- Ashburn, VA
- Sterling, VA
- Manassas, VA
- Richmond, VA
- Atlanta, GA
- Dallas, TX
- Houston, TX
- Austin, TX
- San Antonio, TX
- Chicago, IL
- Elk Grove Village, IL
- Phoenix, AZ
- Mesa, AZ
- Chandler, AZ
- Los Angeles, CA
- San Jose, CA
- Santa Clara, CA
- Irvine, CA
- Sacramento, CA
- San Francisco, CA
- Seattle, WA
- Quincy, WA
- Portland, OR
- Hillsboro, OR
- Denver, CO
- Salt Lake City, UT
- Las Vegas, NV
- Reno, NV
- Omaha, NE
- Des Moines, IA
- Council Bluffs, IA
- Kansas City, MO
- St. Louis, MO
- Minneapolis, MN
- Columbus, OH
- Cleveland, OH
- Cincinnati, OH
- Detroit, MI
- Indianapolis, IN
- Nashville, TN
- Memphis, TN
- Charlotte, NC
- Raleigh, NC
- Greenville, SC
- Jacksonville, FL
- Miami, FL
- Tampa, FL
- Orlando, FL
- Boca Raton, FL
- New York, NY
- Buffalo, NY
- Newark, NJ
- Philadelphia, PA
- Pittsburgh, PA
- Boston, MA
- Hartford, CT
- Baltimore, MD
- Washington, DC
- Louisville, KY
- Birmingham, AL
Statewide coverage
- Alabama 142 cities
- Alaska 30 cities
- Arizona 110 cities
- Arkansas 84 cities
- California 702 cities
- Colorado 128 cities
- Connecticut 58 cities
- Delaware 25 cities
- District of Columbia 1 cities
- Florida 526 cities
- Georgia 200 cities
- Hawaii 65 cities
- Idaho 39 cities
- Illinois 377 cities
- Indiana 146 cities
- Iowa 103 cities
- Kansas 73 cities
- Kentucky 103 cities
- Louisiana 127 cities
- Maine 24 cities
- Maryland 224 cities
- Massachusetts 62 cities
- Michigan 208 cities
- Minnesota 178 cities
- Mississippi 82 cities
- Missouri 176 cities
- Montana 32 cities
- Nebraska 39 cities
- Nevada 36 cities
- New Hampshire 17 cities
- New Jersey 318 cities
- New Mexico 55 cities
- New York 360 cities
- North Carolina 207 cities
- North Dakota 16 cities
- Ohio 331 cities
- Oklahoma 87 cities
- Oregon 115 cities
- Pennsylvania 348 cities
- Rhode Island 14 cities
- South Carolina 121 cities
- South Dakota 19 cities
- Tennessee 137 cities
- Texas 490 cities
- Utah 103 cities
- Vermont 9 cities
- Virginia 218 cities
- Washington 222 cities
- West Virginia 36 cities
- Wisconsin 173 cities
- Wyoming 22 cities
Frequently asked questions
Do you buy individual breakers or only complete lineups?
Is medium voltage gear worth removing?
Can you work around an energized bus?
Do you take the protective relays and metering?
What about the copper bus?
Selling switchgear? Send nameplate photos.
Written, itemized offers the same business day. We disconnect, rig, load and pay on the dock.
Send the asset list, or just tell us roughly what is in the room. We come back the same business day with a written, itemized offer.
Email an asset list to electricalequipmentbuyers@gmail.com
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