| Winder RVCB - safer switchgear for the new millennium |
Injecting new technology into existing equipment
Winder Electrical's range of retrofit vacuum circuit breakers is designed to replace ageing bulk-oil breakers. You can plug these VCB's directly into existing bulk-oil switchgear without any alteration to the existing cubicles, effectively eliminating the hassle of a full replacement exercise, and minimising downtime.
Winder Electrical offers retrofit VCB's of the vertical isolation horizontal withdrawal pattern suitable for replacing the GEC switchgear (UK) type BVP17 oil circuit breakers up to 11kV 350 MVA.
The benefits of vacuum replacing oil: -
- No fire risk
- Reliable consistent operations
- Higher speed of fault clearance, less thermal and dynamic stresses on the connected equipment, thus extending their life span
- Many more switching operations
- Higher availability through much reduced maintenance requirements
- Motor charged spring, stored energy mechanism with manual and electrical release
The VCB requires minimal maintenance. Its design life span is 20 years or 10,000 operations.
