Keith Becker and Matt Cadnum, National Service Managers, Atlas Copco Construction Tools Inc. All hydraulic breakers, regardless of design or manufacturer, have the task of shattering, cracking or ...

To aid owners of hydraulic breaker attachments, Doug Keller, Engineering Documentation Specialist at Allied Construction Products, LLC, has compiled the following tips* on proper operation and ...

Breaker maintenance practices at most production facilities range from nonexistent to ineffective. Sometimes, they are completely off the mark. A plant engineer at a multi-building manufacturing plant ...

It’s astounding that a modern hydraulic breaker provides a useful life measured in years, since under normal operation, one piece of metal attacks another piece of metal up to 1,000 times or more per ...

Eaton is helping utility and industrial customers optimize equipment performance and reduce downtime with an interactive digital educational tool designed to simplify circuit breaker maintenance.

Consolidated Edison has put into practice the use of a circuit breaker maintenance ranking tool developed by the Electric Power Research Institute for its circuit breaker maintenance program. The tool ...

As noted in NFPA 70B, insulated-case and molded-case circuit breakers should be kept clean of external contamination (Comstock/Stockbyte/Thinkstock). Low-voltage ...

Breakers prevent overloads and potential electrical fires in shipboard electrical systems. A Navy submarine typically contains 20 to 30 breakers, and an aircraft carrier has approximately 50. In order ...

The Susol UL Air Circuit Breaker (ACB) has a rated short-circuit capability of up to 130kA at 508 Vac and ratings up to 6000A ...