Product Profile of 12 kv Retrofit Type Vacuum Circuit Breaker

12 kv Retrofit Type Vacuum Circuit Breaker caters to the need of building sector, new upcoming housing projects, electrical industry, big industrial houses for energy management system. The Vacuum Circuit Breaker is know for type tested retrofit, long life and low maintenance. 12 kv Retrofit Type Vacuum Circuit Breaker is manufactured by System Control.

System Control, an ISO 9001:2000 certified company manufactures HT & LT Panel Boards, Medium Voltage Switchgear, etc. The maintenance of conventional circuit breaker i.E. ACB/BOCB/MOCB requires periodic maintenance/replacement of contacts, quenching medium such as oil and the spares for operating mechanism. The frequency of maintenance of ACB/BOCB/MOCB is dependent on no. Of short circuit operations and the switching applications. The switchgear need large amount of spares and since last few years the manufactures have gradually tapered off the production. This resulted in retrofitting of old ACB/BOCB/MOCB switchgear with VCB, which is the best alternative for the old installations. The main advantage of retrofitting is investment cost of upgrading is kept bare minimum besides less down time in the existing plant.

Advantage of Retrofitting:

• The benefits of modern technology viz. Vacuum technology can be made available with minimum installation cost.

• It is cheaper and simpler alternative to enhance the life for the old installation whose service life in almost over or even surpassed.

• The frequency of maintenance of can be drastically reduced as VCB used in place of ACB/BOCB/MOCB.

• There is no need to store large quantity of costly spares of ACB/BOCB/MOCB which may not be availabe because its manufacturing has become obsolete.

• Since ACB/BOCB/MOCB manufacturer`s has stopped manufacturing the breakers, their spares may not be availbale and even if purchased from the supplier other than the manufacturer`s one may not get genuine spares.