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Description / Abstract:
This guide provides practices and processes to perform, analyze,
and report failure investigations of power circuit breakers.
Purpose
The purpose of this guide is
a) To provide guidelines and promote uniformity in the analysis
of power circuit breaker failures
b) To provide guidance for systematic and uniform data
collection so that valuable evidence is not lost or destroyed
c) To provide a methodology by which the most probable cause of
any particular circuit breaker failure may be determined
d) To encourage cooperative efforts by users and manufacturers
during failure analysis
e) To provide guidance for reporting failures for power circuit
breakers