What is air circuit breaker. Electrical protection
What is air circuit breaker. Electrical protection What is air circuit breaker or ACB: Air circuit breaker or ACB is electrical protection device used in electrical system to provide electrical circuit isolation in case of short circuit or over current condition. Also the air circuit breaker or ACB is used to isolate the electrical circuit manually when it is required in case of maintenance on the connection equipment or if it is needed to stop the equipment for long time. Air circuit breakers are used on low voltage like up to 700v and currents from 200A to 6200A. Some air circuit breakers are especially designed to meed voltages up to 1000 volts. Such circuit breakers are designed for the control of photo voltaic or solar systems. Air circuit breaker named because the media used between the contacts for quenching arc on electrodes during circuit making and breaking is air. The contacts operates in air. Sometimes this is just normal pressure air and some times it is pressurized ai...