Circuit breakers

Circuit breakers

Industry: Electrical equipment

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Circuit breakers

inverse time

Electrical equipment; Circuit breakers

A qualifying term indicating there is purposely introduced a delay in the tripping action of the circuit breaker, which delay decreases as the magnitude of the current increases.

The highest current at rated voltage available at the incoming terminals of the circuit breaker. When the circuit breaker can be used at more than one voltage, the interrupting rating will be shown ...

interchangeable trip unit

Electrical equipment; Circuit breakers

A trip unit which can be interchanged by a user among circuit breaker frames of the same design.

integral ground-fault protection for equipment

Electrical equipment; Circuit breakers

Equipment ground-fault protection on grounded neutral systems provided by components internal to the circuit breaker.

insulated case circuit breaker (ICCB)

Electrical equipment; Circuit breakers

UL Standard 489 Listed nonfused molded case circuit breakers which utilize a two-step stored energy closing mechanism, electronic trip system and drawout construction.