what is a switchgear. what is its work & where it is used?

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what is a switchgear. what is its work & where it is used?..

Answer / rabi sahu

as its name stated.It's a switch having gear arrangement to
smoothly operate in high speed on both manual and auto mode,

It's work is to isolate the connected equipment from source
of supply.

measurely it used on power system utilities

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what is a switchgear. what is its work & where it is used?..

Answer / satya

switch Gear means its having some switching equipments
like cbs, relays,isolators.
by using all these equipments we can control the voltage or
current
OR
The assembly of apparatus where we can placed and by using
thus we can control the electrical characteristics

these are mainly used at any where like
substations,transmission etc

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what is a switchgear. what is its work & where it is used?..

Answer / arslan dar

The term switchgear is used in association with the electric power system, or grid, substations and refers to the combination of electrical disconnects, fuses and/or circuit breakers used to isolate electrical equipment. Switchgear is used both to de-energize equipment to allow work to be done and to clear faults downstream.

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what is a switchgear. what is its work & where it is used?..

Answer / venkateshwaran

the electrical energy or electrical
power to transfered from one
source to another source with
safely.. protectiongs is second
thing..

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what is a switchgear. what is its work & where it is used?..

Answer / vinoth

switchgear is a interrupting device used in Generation
transmission and distribution.. when fault occurs in a
system it trips the circuit and protect the loads

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