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Buchholz Relay Specifications and Features

The Buchholz relay is designed to detect faults in oil-filled transformers, capacitors, and reactors supplied with oil conservators. It can detect issues like short circuits, broken core bolts, overheating, and punctured bushings. The relay helps prevent damage from progressing by alerting to problems. It has a weatherproof aluminum casing, inspection windows to view oil levels, and electrical contacts to trigger alarms or shutoffs. The relay can withstand vibrations during normal operation.

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Buchholz Relay Specifications and Features

The Buchholz relay is designed to detect faults in oil-filled transformers, capacitors, and reactors supplied with oil conservators. It can detect issues like short circuits, broken core bolts, overheating, and punctured bushings. The relay helps prevent damage from progressing by alerting to problems. It has a weatherproof aluminum casing, inspection windows to view oil levels, and electrical contacts to trigger alarms or shutoffs. The relay can withstand vibrations during normal operation.

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BUCHHOLZ RELAY

General specifications

The gas and oil actuated (Buchholz) relay is designed to


detect faults as well to minimize the propagation of any
damage which might occur within oil-filled transformers,
capacitors and reactors supplied with oil conservator.

The relay is therefore particularly effective in case of:


Short - circuited core Short - circuits between
laminations phases
Broken-down core bolt Earth faults
insulation
Bad contacts Puncture of bushing insulators
inside tank.
Overheating of some part of
the windings
Furthermore the relay can prevent the development of conditions leading to a
fault in the transformer, such as the falling of the oil level owing to leaks, or
the ingress of air as a result of defects in the oil circulating system.

Construction

CASING : non porous INSULATION : 2000V 50Hz between


weatherproof compact casting terminals and earth for a 60 secs.
of light aluminium alloy painted. time

COVER : non porous WORKING TEMPERATURE : oil


weatherproof compact casting temperature range:-25/+100°C.
of light aluminium alloy painted.
On the cover are located: the VIBRATION TEST (in normal
terminal box, the valve of operative conditions) :
pneumatic test, the breather
cock, the button for mechanical
oscillation amplitude: 2mm
test of alarm and trip circuits.

INSPECTION WINDOWS : time diagram:


special tempered glass with
graduated scale in cm3. 0Hz÷100Hz 30 sec.

CONTACTS : they can be 100Hz 60 sec.


mercury switches or magnetic (200 vibrations/sec.)
actuated switches (reed
contacts). On request it’s 100Hz÷ 0Hz 30 sec.
possible to supply change-over
switches.
SWITCHES CONTACTS CAPACITY TO
CHARACTERISTICS: WITHSTAND VIBRATIONS :

rated voltage: 24¸ 250V AC Mercury sw.:150 horizontal


or DC vibrations/ sec. (75Hz)
first signals of closing contacts
rated current: 0,5A (10000 120 vertical vibrations/sec. (75Hz)
tests) first signals of closing contacts

breaking capacity: Reed sw. : 200 horizontal


vibrations/sec. (100Hz)
2A AC (cos=0,4± 25% - no one signal of closing contacts
50Hz) 200 vertical vibrations/sec. (100Hz)
2A DC (T=L/R=40msec). no one signal of closing contacts
MECHANICAL PROTECTION
DEGREE: IP 54

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