This guide provides practices and processes to perform, analyze, and report failure investigations of power circuit breakers.
Purpose
The purpose of this guide isa) To provide guidelines and promote uniformity in the analysis of power circuit breaker failuresb) To provide guidance for systematic and uniform data collection so that valuable evidence is not lost or destroyedc) To provide a methodology by which the most probable cause of any particular circuit breaker failure may be determinedd) To encourage cooperative efforts by users and manufacturers during failure analysise) To provide guidance for reporting failures for power circuit breakers
Abstract
Revision Standard - Active.Practices and processes to perform, analyze, and report failure investigations of power circuit breakers are provided.