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Ground and test devices 5kv-7.5 kV or 15kv
Ground carts, or Ground devices are used on switchgear maintenance to insure worker safety during outages. Switchgear maintenance personnel would use the ground and test device during planned outages to ground either the line bus, or the load bus, depending … Continue reading
Electric Control Partnership Rescues Utility
Since the 1950’s Electric Control Company, Inc. has been collecting components so they can replace parts quickly and reliably in older switchgear. This huge stockpile of switchgear and circuit breakers allows the company to respond to any emergency, big or … Continue reading
GE Circuit Breaker Limit Switches CAT# K-9921661-2 AND CAT# K-9921661-1, Now Available at Electric Control
General electric supplied two different limit switches on their AK series power circuit breakers. These limit switches were used in electrically operated circuit breakers and were responsible for starting a motor –normally closed K-9921661-2, and stopping the charging motor-normally open … Continue reading
Motors For Westinghouse DHP 5KV AND 15 KV Medium Voltage Circuit Breakers
Westinghouse DHP circuit breakers came with several different motor designs. The earlier Westinghouse DHP breakers, whether they are for 5KV DHP or 15KV DHP breakers, were solenoid operated. They had a big closing coil, like most early medium voltage breakers … Continue reading
GE Magnablast Switchgear – Raise Lower Motors
GE Magnablast switchgear came in several designs. In each design, even if it was 5KV Magnablast switchgear or 15 KV Magnablast switchgear, it required a motor to raise the beaker into the primary disconnects. The motor was appropriately called the … Continue reading
Electric Control Forms Partnership to Serve Nuclear Industry
Electric Control Equipment Co. has formed a partnership with ATC-N to provide nuclear breaker and nuclear switchgear replacement services to the nuclear power industry. ATC Nuclear has provided the nuclear industry with best in class services and hardware for more … Continue reading
Cutler Hammer Circuit Breakers
Cutler Hammer has been building high-quality industrial circuit breakers and switchgear, since the dawn of the industry in the 1940s. Electric Control in Norwalk, Ct., carries dozens of Cutler Hammer models, new used and remanufactured. It you need your Cutler … Continue reading
Outdoor Switchgear
Industrial switchgear is created to handle a variety of voltages and can be located either inside a facility or outside. Locating the gear outside increases the useable space within a facility, but the equipment must be built specifically to avoid … Continue reading
Low Voltage Switchgear
Electric Control’s huge inventory of low voltage switchgear makes it the best place to find any model from any manufacturer from 1945 to the present. Low voltage switchgear is defined as equipment rated to handle less that 1,000 volts. A … Continue reading
Rebuilt Circuit Breakers
And what vintage is your circuit breaker? Not a question you’re likely to hear at this year’s round of Holiday Parties. But if you are facilities manager, a large manufacturer or a power plant operator, the age of your circuit … Continue reading