Earth Leakage Circuit Breakers from Altech!

Tuesday, May 24, 2011 by Beckie Bordenaro
What do earth leakage circuit breakers do? Earth leakage circuit breakers, also called ELCB's and residual current circuit breakers, detect and interrupt earth (ground) faults.

earth leakage circuit breakerThe main purpose when using earth leakage circuit breakers (ELCB's) is to prevent injury to humans and animals due to electric shock.

Altech's FI series of earth leakage circuit breakers are also VDE approved for the European market!

Applications include ground fault protection of equipment (GFPE) and fire prevention by limiting the energy of a fault to less than the minimum ignition energy for many materials.

Marshall Wolf Automation is your authorized industrial automation distributor for the full line of Altech circuit breakers!

Altech carries a wide range of circuit breakers including UL1077, UL508, UL489, molded case and, of course, earth leakage circuit breakers!

Search all of our Altech circuit breakers now!


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