Vacuum Circuit Breaker

Vacuum Circuit Breaker: Although the advantages of interrupting the arc in a vacuum were recognized as early as the nineteenth century, this did not find wide application till a few…

Continue Reading Vacuum Circuit Breaker

Performance of Circuit Breaker System Requirements

Performance of Circuit Breaker System Requirements: Analysis of circuit interruption and the foregoing discussion of various circuit breakers apply to circuit breakers in practice if they had ideal switching characteristics.…

Continue Reading Performance of Circuit Breaker System Requirements

Air Break Circuit Breaker

Air Break Circuit Breaker: The arc interruption process of Air Break Circuit Breaker is based on the natural deionization of gases by a cooling action. The arc is resilient and…

Continue Reading Air Break Circuit Breaker

Duties of circuit breaker diagram

Duties of circuit breaker diagram: Under different circumstances Duties of circuit breaker diagram may be subjected to widely varying stresses. First of all the current varies from a few amperes…

Continue Reading Duties of circuit breaker diagram

Current Chopping

Current Chopping: When interrupting small inductive currents such as transformer excitation currents, circuit breakers tend to clear before the natural current zero is reached. This is because the low-current ionized…

Continue Reading Current Chopping