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circuit switcher, circuit breaker

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Mbrooke

Electrical
Nov 12, 2012
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Are circuit switchers employed on the basis which assume bolted faults on the primary are rare? What is the advantage of a circuit switcher over a breaker?
 
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There is also circuit switchers that can add a closing reactor, or resistor for capacitor closing. These would cost less than a syncronous breaker.

It's not transformer protection, but circuit switchers have a place.
 
Ive seen breaker, reactor then individual circuit switcher to each cap bank. It really seems like breakers do all real fault clearing.
 
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