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Pennsylvania Breaker Releases Preliminary Tour Agenda

The Finepoint Circuit Breaker Conference's 2007 Factory Day co-host, Pennsylvania Breaker and Pennsylvania Transformer Technology, have released a preliminary agenda of the daylong activities on Oct. 2.

  • Presentation: Introduction to Pennsylvania Transformer Technology.
  • Tour of power transformer manufacturing facilities. Including tank assembly and welding, Georg automated core stacking machine, core winding, vapor phase processing, final assembly and final test.
  • Introduction to Pennsylvania Breaker, its products and design for service principles.
  • Tour of SF6 breaker production facilities. Including mechanism assembly, wiring, interrupter assembly, pressure testing, final assembly, production testing, and high voltage lab.
  • Training seminar dealing with common issues for OA-3 and OA-4 circuit breaker mechanisms.
  • Training seminar dealing with common issues with McGraw-Edison, Cooper, and Pennsylvania load tap changers.
  • High voltage testing techniques including dielectric withstand, impulse, and “cold-characteristic” testing.
  • Introduction to modern hydraulic mechanism technology.
  • Review of puffer interruption principles, including maintenance and installation procedures.
  • Review of SF6 gas handling techniques with Eric Campbell from Dilo.

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