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Dec 29, 2025

The Benefits of Online Circuit Breaker Monitoring

Learn how online circuit breaker monitoring helps utilities improve reliability and reduce maintenance costs. With continuous insight into breaker timing, mechanical performance and SF6 conditions, the INCON® Optimizer3 can identify emerging issues earlier. This reduces the need for offline testing and helps teams target maintenance more effectively while limiting truck...

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Dec 03, 2025

Extend Circuit Breaker Life

The INCON® Optimizer3 facilitates condition-based maintenance, allowing maintenance to be performed based on the actual condition of the circuit breaker rather than on a fixed schedule. This targeted approach prevents unnecessary maintenance, reducing the risk of over-maintenance that can contribute to premature wear.

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Jan 28, 2025

Streamlining Circuit Breaker Maintenance Across a Substation Network

A major utility in the western United States manages a wide range of high voltage circuit breakers in their substations. Circuit breakers including oil, SF6, and vacuum types from various manufacturers are employed throughout their network of substations. Each circuit breaker type presents unique monitoring needs, making it challenging for...

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Nov 19, 2024

Deep Dive: Circuit Breaker Timing

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Once connected to the breaker’s control circuit, the Optimizer3 Circuit Breaker Monitor will take timing measurements each time the breaker operates. The availability and fidelity of these timing measurements enable utilities to defer or eliminate off-line testing.

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Sep 04, 2024

Part 5: Equipment Selection

You can generally look to a few electrical specifications of the selected chargers to appropriately size the required switchgear. A good place to start is to figure out the required circuit breaker sizes to be included in the switchgear. You will need to figure out what you need for both the individual branch circuit breakers for each charger and the main circuit breaker.

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Jul 16, 2024

Key Components of DC Fast Charging Stations

People new to the Electric Vehicle (EV) industry may find the DC fast charging ecosystem complex. Let's examine the required equipment, utility infrastructure, and the process of charging an EV with a DC fast charger.

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May 15, 2024

Part 4: The Fundamentals of EV Charging

The process of charging an EV requires many moving parts within the site infrastructure as well as the vehicle itself. Also required is a delicate exchange of information between the EV and the charger.

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May 08, 2024

Conservation Voltage Reduction

The INCON® Distribution Transformer Monitor (DTM) provides continuous, meter-grade precision performance monitoring of high-value, mission critical, low voltage pad mount and conventional pole mount transformers. With its ability to monitor key metrics like voltage, current, power factor, and phase angle at the distribution transformer level, the DTM provides utilities with...

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