How to calculate the KA rating for a circuit breaker if we
know the KVA rating of the generator feeding it?

Answer Posted / alan jenkins

The Point you are missing Ravishankar is the kA rating of a circuit breaker is not the amount of fault current it will withstand, but the amount of fault current it will safely clear.. That is the big Difference.

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