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What is an Earth Leakage Circuit Breaker (ELCB) ?

December 28, 2017 by Veenu

DWQA Questions › Category: Switchgear and Protection › What is an Earth Leakage Circuit Breaker (ELCB) ?
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Veenu asked 5 years ago
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Jeena answered 5 years ago

An ECLB is one kind of safety device used for installing an electrical device with high earth impedance to avoid shock. These devices identify small stray voltages of the electrical device on the metal enclosures and intrude the circuit if a dangerous voltage is identified. The main purpose of Earth leakage circuit breaker (ECLB) is to stop damage to humans & animals due to electric shock.

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Sunder answered 5 years ago

  An Earth-leakage circuit breaker (ELCB) is a safety device used in electrical installations with high Earth impedance to prevent shock. It detects small stray voltages on the metal enclosures of electrical equipment, and interrupts the circuit if a dangerous voltage is detected. Once widely used, more recent installations instead use residual current circuit breakers which instead detect leakage current directly.

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Beeter answered 5 years ago

Earth Leakage Circuit Breaker (ELCB) is a device used to directly detect currents leaking to earth from an installation and cut the power and mainly used in TT earthing systems.

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