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Duty Cycle of Circuit Breaker /

Operating Sequence of Circuit
Breaker
3 minutes

We keep wondering what the heck this sequence on the

name plate of the Circuit Brekaer. Lets find it out now.

What is the Duty Cycle/ Operating Sequence of CB?

It is the Mechanical Duty requirement to be fullfilled by the

Operating Mechanism of the Breaker and specified on the
Name Plate of the Breaker by the Manafucturer.

What is its Significance ?

It is mainly used during Circuit Breaker Auto Reclosing.

How is it specified ?

It specified as: O-t-CO-t’-CO and generally given as O-0.3

SEC-CO-3 MIN-CO, where O is CB Tripping, t is the Dead
Time, CO is Reclose with immediate Tripping (AR
Unsucessful) and t’ is the Reclaim Time and then the cycle

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continous, if its a Multishot AR or the Fault reccours.

Sequence of Operation:

1. When there is a fault, the concerned relay operates, which

inturn operates the Master Trip Relay (86).

2. CB Trip initiates and at the same time Auto Reclose Initiates.

3. CB Trips in about 30ms, which is indicated by “O” in the Duty

Cycle.

4. Then CB will remain open for some time (0.3 sec) to

complete the Arc Quenching which is called as Dead Time
and is indicated by “0.3Sec” in the Duty Cycle.

5. After 0.3 sec, if AR is in Service, a Reclose will be attempted,

and if the fault persists, CB Trips immediately ( AR
Unsucessful ) which is indicated by “CO” in the duty cycle.

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6. If its a Single Shot Auto-reclose, the Breaker will go into Auto

Reclose Lockout, that means , the AutoReclose Relay will not
give any futher Reclose Command to the Breaker.

7. After CO, there is a Reclaim Time of 3 Minutes, in which the

CB gets ready for Closing, which includes Cb Spring
Charging Time, indicated by “3 Min” in the Duty Cycle.

8. After the Reclaim Time has completed, Second Reclose will

be attempted in following two cases:

Case i) If its a Multishot AR, the breaker will close again,

and if the fault is cleared it will remain close, but if the fault is
still there then the breaker will open
immediately, and now breaker will remain open until it is
closed manually.

Case ii) Auto-reclose was sucessful (Fault Cleared &

Breaker had closed), but after the Reclaim Time, the Fault
Reoccured. In this Case, the Duty Cycle will
continue.

Please do watch this video on our Youtube Channel (Its in

Hindi Language though).

Thank You so Much. See you in some other Post.

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