Design and construction of an automated test bench for mcb testing

Wickramarachchi, NK; Amaradasa, WGM; Amarasinghe, HKJ; Karunarathna, HKTR; Wijekoon, WM

Design and construction of an automated test bench for mcb testing

Date

2016-05

Authors

Publisher

IEEE

Abstract

Testing of MCBs involve sending a preset current through the MCB under test until it trips or if not for a predefined period of time. The operational state of the MCB should be recorded for variable currents. Automation of the testing process for household MCBs is presented in this paper. This paper includes design of the testing process and simulation of the controllable current source. Maximum current which can be injected by the current source is 390 A for a short time duration.

Keywords

MCB, Controllable Current Source, DC motor, transformer

Citation

N. K. Wickramarachchi, W. G. M. Amaradasa, H. K. J. Amarasinghe, H. K. T. R. Karunarathna and W. M. Wijekoon, "Design and construction of an automated test bench for MCB testing," 2016 Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference (MERCon), 2016, pp. 260-265, doi: 10.1109/MERCon.2016.7480150.