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  2. Generator interlock kit - Wikipedia

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    Early generator interlock kits consisted of two sliding steel or plastic (depending on the brand) plates held together by three bolts and installed on the front cover of the home's breaker panel, however, some models made by Eaton (formerly Cutler-Hammer) and Siemens for panels manufactured by them install on the adjacent circuit breakers themselves and consist of a sliding arm for breakers ...

  3. Power system protection - Wikipedia

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    Power system protection is a branch of electrical power engineering that deals with the protection of electrical power systems from faults [citation needed] through the disconnection of faulted parts from the rest of the electrical network. The objective of a protection scheme is to keep the power system stable by isolating only the components ...

  4. Arc-fault circuit interrupter - Wikipedia

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    AFCI circuit breakers include a standard inverse-time circuit breaker but provide no specific protection against "glowing" connections (also known as a high resistance connection), high line voltages, or low line voltages. An AFCI does not detect high line voltage caused by an open neutral in a multiwire branch circuit.

  5. Circuit breaker - Wikipedia

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    Vacuum circuit breakers—With rated current up to 6,300 A, and higher for generator circuit breakers application (up to 16,000 A & 140 kA). These breakers interrupt the current by creating and extinguishing the arc in a vacuum container – aka "bottle". Long life bellows are designed to travel the 6–10 mm the contacts must part.

  6. Electrical room - Wikipedia

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    Electrical rooms typically house the following equipment: Electric switchboards; Distribution boards; Circuit breakers and disconnects; Motor control centers; Transformers; Busbars; Electricity meters; Backup batteries in a Battery room; Fire alarm control panels; Distribution frames

  7. Single-line diagram - Wikipedia

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    A typical one-line diagram with annotated power flows. Red boxes represent circuit breakers, grey lines represent three-phase bus and interconnecting conductors, the orange circle represents an electric generator, the green spiral is an inductor, and the three overlapping blue circles represent a double-wound transformer with a tertiary winding.

  8. Distribution board - Wikipedia

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    A distribution board (also known as panelboard, circuit breaker panel, breaker panel, electric panel, fuse box or DB box) is a component of an electricity supply system that divides an electrical power feed into subsidiary circuits while providing a protective fuse or circuit breaker for each circuit in a common enclosure.

  9. Ground loop (electricity) - Wikipedia

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    Battery-powering one or more of the circuits can avoid a ground loop, because the entire device may be disconnected from mains power. A hazardous technique sometimes used by amateurs is to break the third wire ground conductor P in one of the component's power cords, by removing the ground pin on the plug, or using a cheater plug. This creates ...