SEL-9502
Contact Arc Suppressor
Increase contact reliability, and significantly reduce maintenance costs.
Starting At
$140Improved Reliability—Eliminate the single largest failure mode of protective relays, and prevent contact welding caused by the inadvertent interruption of the tripping current by relay contacts that are not rated for such high currents.
Breaker Contact Wear Reduction—Eliminate electrical wear in circuit breaker 52a/52b contacts. SEL-9502 Contact Arc Suppressor shunts current around the opening contact. It then interrupts the current and dissipates the energy internally instead of damaging contacts.
All-Inclusive Protection—Protect many other contact types, such as trip, close, lockout coil, auxiliary, and control switches. The SEL-9502 should not be used with reed relays.
Details
- Increase existing contact interrupt rating to 15 A @ 280 Vdc for a circuit with an L/R ratio of less than or equal to 40 ms.
- Installs easily with simple connections.
- Withstands interrupting 10 A of trip coil current four times in three seconds; trip/high-speed reclose/trip/delayed reclose/trip/delayed recloser/trip.
- Protects many contact types, including 52a, 52b, trip, close, lockout coil, auxiliary, and control switch.
- Low-cost, two-terminal device.
- Install in parallel with any dc contact.
- Connect across auxiliary contacts, lockout switch contacts, trip contacts/close contacts, programmable logic controller (PLC) contacts, sensitive communication contacts, and SCADA contacts.
- Protects the contact by actually interrupting the current.
- Increases contact reliability.
- Reduces contact monitoring.
- Eliminates contact service and maintenance.
- Eliminates contact arcing in dc circuits.
- Eliminates contact wear.
- Reduces voltage stress with smooth current interruption.
- Reduces dc circuit "noise."
- Not for use with reed relays.
Apply with any dc contact up to 280 Vdc. Provide protection for high-speed trip and close contacts.
The Firmware IDs for older versions of the firmware can typically be found in Appendix A of the instruction manual.
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