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Isolator or disconnecting switch no load 1.

Gas
2. Merz price
Air break switch under load
3. Small
Fuse silver 4. Conservator
5. Earth
Fuse low melting point, high conductivity 6. Main tank
Relay detects the fault, supplies information 7. Silver fuse
to the breaker for circuit interruption 8. Frequently
9. Inherent
Relay current transformer 10. More Sensitive
Duplicate for flexibility 11. Alternator
12. Protective relay
Fuse melts well before it reaches the 13. Remake
highest value of fault current 14. Isolator no load
15. Bas bar constant voltage
Capacitance current surge voltage
16. Oil
Bus bars constant voltage 17. Chopping arc air blast
18. Voltage surge
Alternator Merz-Price
19. Arc
1 VA is more sensitive than 3 VA 20. Increase resistance
21. Closed position normal operating
Sectionalized bus bar lower fault current than condition
un-sectionalized bus bar
22. Sudden loss of load over speed
Tin maintains the arc 23. Extinguished
24. Fuse protective
Fuse faster operation than circuit breaker / 25. Low melting point
less noise 26. Greater than unity
Secondary protection (back-up) operates 27. Low medium, high
when the primary protection fails 28. Automatic
29. Electro-mechanical
Secondary protection protects against short- 30. Selectivity
circuit 31. Over current
32. Primary
Overspeeding (alternator) sudden loss of load
33. Short circuit
Earth-fault most important fault / according 34. Single bus bar
to importance 35. Current
36. Current transformer
Buccholz relay between the main tank and the
37. Pick up value
conservator tank
38. Buccholz relay
Buccholz relay gas-actuated relay 39. Under load
40. Ac only
Buccholz relay connected to the main tank
41. Mechanical seizure
Fusing factor greater than unity (1) 42.

Fuse inherently automatic operation


Circuit breakers remake the arc after
automatic operation

Arc length increases, resistance increases

Normal operation closed contact circuit

Open circuit forms the arc

Fuse protective device | Circuit breaker


interrupting device

Electromechanical relay relays

Fuse used for situations that are frequently


not in operation

Semi-enclosed rewireable fuse inverse

Semi-enclosed rewireable fuse low voltage,


high currents

Chopping current air circuit breaker

Selectivity (circuit breakers)

Earth fault low current settings

Field faults (alternators) protection is not


provided

Transformer (overheat) protection is not


provided

Alternator no overload protection

Core leakage protection protection against


earth-faults in the transformer

Less oil needed for (special purpose) OCB than


ordinary OCB

No protection for small distribution transformer

Failure of prime mover inverted running

Oil circuit breakers oil is used / some mineral


oil

Electromagnetic induction for A.C. only


Alternator overcurrent protection is not
provided

Switch does not detect fault

Diesel engine driven alternators failure of


prime mover protection against mechanical
seizure

Most important stator winding fault fault


between phase and ground / earth and ground

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