Circuit Breaker Motor Monitoring

Breaker Motor Monitoring explains how tracking a circuit breaker’s charging motor and stored energy mechanism (spring, hydraulic, pneumatic) detects incipient defects and prevents mis-operations. It outlines alarms for motor current, runtime, leaks, moisture, pressure, and temperature, and introduces Breaker Performance Monitor and Serial Gateway for analytics and integration.

Product Overview

• Monitors charging motors across spring, hydraulic, and pneumatic mechanisms.
• Detects incipient defects via current, runtime, pressure, and moisture analytics.
• Alarms for excessive motor runs, leaks, limit switch issues, and compressor temperature.
• Integrates with Serial Gateway for data retrieval and analytics.

Breaker Performance Monitor enables predictive and condition based maintenance by analyzing charging motor current, runtime, and starts across spring, hydraulic, and pneumatic mechanisms. It raises targeted alarms for leaks, limit switch failures, moisture, and compressor temperature, while Serial Gateway streamlines data retrieval and integration for analytics, supporting DERMS and ADMS.

Target Market

Ideal for utility protection and control engineers, substation maintenance teams, asset managers, and reliability engineers operating transmission and distribution networks, power generation (traditional and renewable), data centers, industrial plants, and mining sites. Useful where SF6 environmental stewardship, condition based maintenance, and integration with DERMS/ADMS analytics platforms are priorities.