Magnetic Trip Circuit Breaker

Excessive electrical currents will heat the bimetallic strip enough to bend it towards a trip bar that turns the circuit off.

Magnetic trip circuit breaker.

Unlike a fuse which operates once and then must be replaced a circuit breaker can be reset either manually or automatically to resume. The bimetal serves as a means of handling overcurrents. The trip unit is the part of the circuit breaker that determines when the contacts will open automatically. The magnetic protection mechanism is calibrated to trip with high magnitude fault currents but does not respond to.

The magnetic field moves a switch tripping the breaker and clearing the fault. The high current induces a very strong magnetic field in a coil inside the circuit breaker. The strength of the. The magnetic trip unit made up by an electromagnetic device with fixed fixed.

Suitable for use in power tools household equipment power supply and chargers and industrial applications. The thermal trip unit made up by a bimetal thermal device which actuates the opening of a circuit breaker with a delay depending on the overcurrent value. Electronic trip breakers are typically built as molded case circuit breakers mccb which means they require more space than a miniature plug in circuit breakers. Thermal magnetic tripping units the thermomagnetic trip unit consists of two parts.

Schurter t11 circuit breaker is a snap in 1 pole thermal circuit breaker that offers positively trip free release. The second component used in a thermal magnetic circuit breaker is a thermal bimetallic strip that responds to prolonged low level electrical surges or overloads of electrical currents. In a thermal magnetic circuit breaker the trip unit includes elements designed to sense the heat resulting from an overload condition and the high current resulting from a short circuit. The t11 is easy to install with snap in mount and quick connect terminals.

Many thermal magnetic breakers are rated for use in both ac and dc applications but electronic breakers with cts are exclusive for ac circuit protection. With normal current the electromagnet will not have enough attraction to the trip bar to move it and the contacts will remain closed as shown in figure 2 20 view a. A magnetic trip element circuit breaker uses an electromagnet in series with the circuit load as in figure 2 20. Overloaded circuits loose or faulty wiring and lightning can cause the circuit breaker to trip.

This trip unit is intended for the protection against overloads. Thermal magnetic circuit breakers contain two different switching mechanisms a bimetal switch and an electromagnet.