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There are different contacts connected in series along a trip circuit of a electrical circuit breaker.
There must be some situation when the circuit breaker should not trip even a faulty current
passes through its power contacts. Such situations are low gas pressure in
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The above scheme is for supervision while circuit breaker is closed. This scheme is called post
close supervision.
There is another supervision scheme which is called pre and post close supervision. This trip
circuit supervision scheme is also quite simple. The only difference is that here in this scheme,
one NC contact of same auxiliary switch is connected across the auxiliary NO contact of the trip
circuit. The auxiliary NO contact is closed when CB is closed and auxiliary NC contact is closed
when CB is open and vice versa. Hence, as shown in the figure below when the circuit breaker is
closed the trip circuit supervision network is completed via auxiliary NO contact but when the
circuit breaker is open the same supervision network is completed via NC contact. The resistor is
used series with the lamp for preventing unwanted tripping of circuit breaker due to internal
short circuit caused by failure of the lamp.
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