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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.
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What do you mean by acb and vcb?
acb means AIR CIRCUIT BREAKER ,& vcb means VACUUM CIRCUIT BREAKER
How does a vacuum circuit breaker operate?
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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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
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Sulpur Hexa-Fluoride(SF6) is the gas used to quench the arc in a Vacuum circuit breaker.SF6 is a inert gas and is in-organic,colorless,odorless,non-flammable gas used as an outstanding electrical insolater.AnswerAs its name suggests, the arc is extinguished within a vacuum. No gas is involved.
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