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In a vacuum breaker the moving contact and fixed contact are sealed inside a vacuum chamber. Electrons cannot flow in a vacuum, therefore as soon as the moving contact seperates from the fixed contact the arc meets an infinite resistance and is immediately extinguished. Because of this, the gap between the fixed and moving contacts when the breaker is open need only be a tiny amount.
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∙ 12y agoA circuit breaker is an automatically operated electrical switch.Its protect an electrical circuit from damage over load and short circuit. A circuit breaker can be reset to resume normal operation.
AnswerIt depends on the circuit breaker. A miniature circuit breaker, for example, contains a bimetallic temperature sensor (overload current protection) and a magnetic trip (short-circuit current protection). On the other hand a high-voltage circuit breaker contains no sensors but relies, instead, on external protective relays which, when activated, energise a trip coil within the circuit breaker, which trips the breaker.
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∙ 13y agoBy the electromagnetic field differential between a conductor and the grounded conductor through a vacuum.
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What do you mean by acb and vcb?
acb means AIR CIRCUIT BREAKER ,& vcb means VACUUM CIRCUIT BREAKER
Which type of circuit breakers used in railway applications in India?
Vacuum circuit breaker is used in railway applications and as it is used in the applications where current chopping phenomenon is more
How is vacuum created in a vacuum circuit beaker?
Such a circuit breaker is a sealed unit (to preserve the vacuum), and relies on the concept that if there is no ionizable material between the contacts, there can be no arc. In practice, a sufficiently strong arc could ionize some of the metal of the contacts, but a well designed vacuum circuit breaker is quite useful for even moderately high voltages - at least into the hundreds of volts. The vacuum is of course built into the device at manufacture.
Why Vacuum circuit breaker is using HT and why Air circuit breaker is using in LT?
Dielectric Strength of Vacuum is more than that of Air. In HT voltage is more than LT. So VCB is used in HT & ACB in LT. Rakesh Gaikwad
What is the difference of a Circuit Breaker from an Air Circuit breaker?
They are completely different. A moulded-case circuit breaker is a low- or medium-voltage device, whereas an air circuit breaker is a very large circuit breaker designed for use in high-voltage transmission/distribution substations.
What do you mean by acb and vcb?
acb means AIR CIRCUIT BREAKER ,& vcb means VACUUM CIRCUIT BREAKER
What is the difference between Air circuit breaker and Vacuum circuiut breaker?
"Air" and "Vacuum" describe how the breaker extinguishes the arcing current. An Air breaker opens far enough that the dielectric strenght of air is enough to extinguish the arc. A vacuum breaker's contacts are in a vacuum. Oil breakers use oil. SF6 breakers use SF6 gas to extinguish the arc.
What is the latest generation of circuit breakers called?
SION Vacuum Circuit-Breaker
What is Vacuume Circuit Breaker?
A vacuum circuit breaker is a high-voltage circuit breaker whose contacts separate within a vacuum dielectric. The vacuum contributes to extinguishing the resulting arc because ionisation cannot take place while the arc is stretched between the separating contacts.
Do you have a circuit breaker which operates for one millon volts?
Circuit breakers operate on current not voltage.
How you can check vacuum pressure of vacuum circuit breaker?
By means of Megger Vidar or Vanguad VBT Series
What are the differences between a vacuum breaker and a SF6 gas circuit breaker breaker and a sf6 gas circuit breaker?
vcb is have vaccume and sf6 cb is filled with sf6 gas which will have good arc quencing property
What is a Circuit breaker and explain type circuit breakers?
A circuit breaker is a switching device which can make,brake and carrying (or trip the circuit) that specified over currents for a small interval of time . There is a different types of Circuit Breaker's are there 1.According to their arc quenching media these are divided into 4 types a) Oil circuit breaker b) Air blast circuit breaker c) SF6 circuit breaker d) vacuum circuit breaker 2. According to their services the circuit breaker can be divided as a) Outdoor Circuit Breaker b) Indoor Breaker 3. According to the operating mechanism of circuit breaker they can be divided as a) Spring operated Circuit Breaker b) Pneumatic Circuit Breaker c) Hydrolic Circuit Breaker 4. According to the voltage level of installation these are divided into 3 types a) High Voltage Circuit Breaker b) Medium Voltage Circuit Breaker c) Low Voltage Circuit Breaker.
What is function of vcb?
VCB is Vacuum Circuit Breaker. It is one of the type of Circuit breaker. In VCB arching chamber is vacuum instead of oil or such arc quenching media. Its function is to break the circuit automatically in case of fault or to isolate the circuit under normal situation also.
Which type of circuit breakers used in railway applications in India?
Vacuum circuit breaker is used in railway applications and as it is used in the applications where current chopping phenomenon is more
What is vcb?
The VCB yard us basically a yard that uses the Vacuum Circuit Breaker.
You plug a vacuum cleaner into a 110-V outlet with nothing else on the circuit If the 15-A circuit breaker is tripped. what is the maximum possible resistance of the vacuum's motor?
7.3 ohms
