Medium voltage switchgear protects your power system and isolates equipment for maintenance — but when it fails, the results are unplanned outages, safety risks, and costly emergency repairs.
Switchgear fails two ways. Breaker failures stem from loss of lubrication and age-related wear, showing up as slowed interrupting times or failure to operate. Bus failures are driven by moisture and contamination, with partial discharge (PD) signaling insulation breakdown long before an arcing event. Offline testing can’t catch these reliably. Racking out breakers exposes crews to arc flash risk and only offers a snapshot — slow interrupting times and early insulation failures often go undetected between test cycles.
Dynamic Ratings’ Switchgear Monitors close that gap with continuous, real-time visibility. Smart waveform capture tracks every breaker operation — trip coil, close coil, load current, and aux contacts — against a reference waveform, making degradation visible before it becomes failure. Continuous PD monitoring flags bus insulation breakdown at its earliest stage. Add gas monitoring, trip coil integrity, interrupter condition, and environmental monitoring for a complete picture across every bay, from one system.
For utilities managing aging infrastructure and rising load demands, this is risk management — not just maintenance.
Learn how continuous switchgear monitoring protects your system before failure strikes.
