Protection Switchgear 1 min read
Dynamics of Motor Load System
A motor generally drives a load (Machines) through some transmission system. While motor always rotates, the load may rotate or…
THE ARCHIVES
Author: Prabhu TL.
Prabhu TL is a SenseCentral contributor covering digital products, entrepreneurship, and scalable online business systems. He focuses on turning ideas into repeatable processes—validation, positioning, marketing, and execution. His writing is known for simple frameworks, clear checklists, and real-world examples. When he’s not writing, he’s usually building new digital assets and experimenting with growth channels.
← Explore all topics Protection Switchgear 3 min read
Testing of circuit breakers
Primary injection test For primary injection testing, high current is injected on the primary side of the current transformer. The…
Protection Switchgear 3 min read
vacuum circuit breakers
In this breaker, vacuum is being used as the arc quenching medium. Vacuum offers highest insulating strength, it has far…
Protection Switchgear 5 min read
SF6 circuit breaker
At this point we are aware that the medium in which arc extinction of the circuit breaker takes place greatly…
Protection Switchgear 3 min read
Oil circuit breakers
Types Of Oil Circuit Breakers Oil circuit breakers can be classified into following types: 1) Bulk oil circuit breakers which…
Protection Switchgear 6 min read
Air blast circuit breaker
This type of circuit breakers, is those kind of circuit breaker which operates in air at atmospheric pressure. After development…
Protection Switchgear 7 min read
Rating of Circuit Breaker
The rating of a circuit breaker includes, 1) Rated short circuit breaking current. 2) Rated short circuit making current. 3) Rated operating sequence of circuit…
Protection Switchgear 3 min read
current chopping
Current chopping is a term that came to our vocabulary with the advent of vacuum switching which was commercially started…
Protection Switchgear 3 min read
Resistance switching
To reduce the restriking voltage, RRRV and severity of the transient oscillations, a resistance is connected across the contacts of…
Protection Switchgear 2 min read
Rate of rise of recovery voltage
It is the rate of increase of restriking voltage and is abbreviated by R.R.R.V. its unit is kV/m sec.Consider the…
Protection Switchgear 1 min read
Restriking voltage and recovery voltage
It is the transient voltage that appears across the contacts at or near current zero during arcing period.If dielectric strength…
Protection Switchgear 8 min read
Formation of arc during circuit breaking
The phenomena of Arc During opening of current carrying contacts in a circuit breaker the medium in between opening contacts…