Any marine electric guys
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I ran into a really interesting situation today trying to help a customer out
So what you see here is a drum that rotates and sends power to a bridge distribution. When it rotates it's grounding out and triping the mains, really cool set up kind of hard to explain here but I'll try.
In the first two pics you can see where the brushes are making contact with a circular bus bar, that bus bar is attached to a rod that's tied into the end of cables attached to a wire wheel you can see in the third picture
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So what you see here is a drum that rotates and sends power to a bridge distribution. When it rotates it's grounding out and triping the mains, really cool set up kind of hard to explain here but I'll try.
In the first two pics you can see where the brushes are making contact with a circular bus bar, that bus bar is attached to a rod that's tied into the end of cables attached to a wire wheel you can see in the third picture
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- Chicago, IL
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- EE
It's interesting seeing those slip rings.
As far as the breaker, I've no experience with marine equipment but perhaps you could contact these guys:
As far as the breaker, I've no experience with marine equipment but perhaps you could contact these guys:
- Location
- Chapel Hill, NC
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- Retired Electrical Contractor
I have no idea what you have there but here are some merlin Gerin breakers
It also appears that schneider electric may have replacements..
It also appears that schneider electric may have replacements..
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