Vacuum Circuit Breaker Rating
The product conforms to iec62271.
Vacuum circuit breaker rating. Circuit breakers medium voltage. The circuit breaker contacts are located where indicators are readily accessible. Vacuum circuit breaker has a high insulating medium for arc extinction as compared to the other circuit breaker. 3ah4 vacuum circuit breakers the compact vacuum circuit breakers in the 3ah4 series are designed for up to 40 5 kv and can handle up to 120 000 switching sequences.
This requires sturdy powerful vacuum circuit breakers that can manage these tough demands like the vacuum circuit breakers in our 3ah4 series. Circuit breakers for indoor and outdoor applications with the world s most successfull range in medium voltage vacuum and sf6 gas. The front accessible mechanism allows for ease of maintenance. With their wide range of ratings and benefits the type vr circuit.
It consists of fixed contact moving contact and arc shield mounted inside a vacuum chamber vacuum interrupter. Rated operating sequence of circuit breaker. Short circuit breaking current of circuit breaker this is the maximum short circuit current which a circuit breaker cb can withstand before it. The pressure inside the vacuum interrupter is approximately 10 4 torrent and at this pressure very few molecules are present in the interrupter.
Cbs from abb are available for original equipment manufacturers oem to. Rated short time current. Vcb stands for vacuum circuit breaker and are mainly used in circuit breakers that use medium to high levels of voltage where the arc quenching occurs in a vacuum. See below sample of vacuum circuit breaker sizing.
In comparison to various other insulating. Across every market abb s circuit breakers occupy a leading position thanks to their proven reputation for reliability performance and long life. Construction of vacuum circuit breaker. 1 introduction product type environmental data ge energy industrial solutions has launched a new series of vacuum circuit breakers called secovac vb2.
The circuit breaker must first detect a fault condition. The circuit breaker operates at a high speed and because of the hermetically sealed vacuum interrupters has a longer life cycle. In this circuit breaker the fixed and moving contact is enclosed in a permanently sealed vacuum interrupter. Rated short circuit making current.
The rating of a circuit breaker includes. Rated short circuit breaking current. Typical parts of the vacuum circuit breaker are shown in the figure. While the demand load current is only 335 26 amps the selected vcb rating is 1200 amps.
All circuit breaker systems have common features in their operation but details vary substantially depending on the voltage class current rating and type of the circuit breaker. Actual application rating of vacuum circuit breaker depends on the ct ratio and the relay settings. Vacuum circuit breaker vcb is electrically operated switch. The arc is extinct as the contacts are separated in high vacuum.
There are no overcurrent devices built in. The vacuum circuit breaker has mainly two phenomenal properties.