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What is the difference between the CONTACTOR AND Circuit Breaker? what is The most important characteristics for them?

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Question added by Mohammed Alajaji , Material Officer , Qassim Cement Company
Date Posted: 2016/06/21
ehab taha
by ehab taha , senior electrical engineer , Aldarat Contracting Co.

the contactor is only on and off switch but controlled remotly by applied voltage on its coil terminal to change its situation but CB can be manual or motorized and also work as on and off switch but also it feels the short circuit current and the earth leakage current if it is contain it

manzoor ummar
by manzoor ummar , Electrical Engineer , Tata Consulting Engineers

Contactor is primiarily used to switch on and off the circuit.

Circuit breaker is used to isolate the circuit in case of fault. It can also switch on and off the circuit, but its primary function is fault isolation.

Hamid Reza Gholipour
by Hamid Reza Gholipour , E&IC , Alfa Training

Contactor is a magnetic CB and you can control the circuit with electrical commands to contactor, but CB is a manual switch with ower current protection.

Pradeep Kumar Anbalagan
by Pradeep Kumar Anbalagan , Sr. Estimation Engineer , Texas Powertech WLL

Contactor can be used for limited power supply and Circuit breaker is used for low to high end applications. Also CB is providing safe isolation of the circuit.

Mohammed Doski
by Mohammed Doski , كهربائي محترف , شركة سولاف

The difference is that the first two lines can transfer electricity without overlap between them and the second prevents just one line

Mokaddem Bessem
by Mokaddem Bessem , employeer , aucun

Circuit breaker: c'est unrepture au niveau du cable.                     Contactor: est le connecteur (ouvert ou fermer

Khalid Salmi
by Khalid Salmi , Senior Energy Management Specialist , Regional Center for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (RCREEE)

A circuit breaker is used to limit the current supplied to a circuit, contactor is in a sense a switch. 

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