Low & Medium Voltage Switchgear Testing
Certified Low & Medium Voltage Switchgear Testing: Protecting the Heart of Your Industrial Power System
Make sure the heart of your power system is safe, reliable, and ready. The switchgear controls the flow of power and contains critical protective breakers. A failure here is not just a localized issue. Instead, it's a catastrophic outage that can halt production, cause fires, or lead to equipment loss. Faulty breakers cause outages, fires, or equipment loss. To prevent this from happening, we offer switchgear testing services, an essential preventative measure.
Blue Runner Switchgear inspects, tests, and maintains your protective systems (breakers, relays) and the physical switchgear enclosure to function perfectly when needed. Proactive, NETA Certified maintenance restores reliability and prevents unplanned downtime. Get your system in check by scheduling your switchgear inspection and preventative maintenance (PM) with our skilled team of experts.
When Are Low & Medium Voltage Switchgear Testing Services Essential?
This testing service is crucial for maintaining compliance and uptime, backed by a NETA-certified company. There are many scenarios where you must have this service, including:
- Scheduled Maintenance & Audit Cycles: Required for routine compliance and preventative maintenance of electrical testing programs.
- Post-Fault/Outage: Necessary after an outage to verify all protective systems are undamaged and reset correctly, ensuring the same failure isn't repeated.
- Critical Ageing Equipment:
When switchgear is nearing or past its intended lifespan, aggressive switchgear testing services are required to predict its remaining life and plan for necessary circuit breaker testing and repair.
Verifiable Switchgear Reliability: Our NETA-Certified Maintenance Process
Low and medium voltage switchgear testing must adhere to strict guidelines. Our certified process ensures that compliance and documentation for every step of the process. The goal is not just to test, but to actively monitor reliability. Our team also performs a variety of maintenance services, including:
All Types of Switchgear PM and Testing:
We provide comprehensive Preventive Maintenance (PM) programs for both medium-voltage (MV) and low-voltage (LV) switchgear. As the bedrock of system reliability, our service encompasses visual and thermal inspections and precise mechanical checks, such as lubrication and torque verification, and essential electrical tests, including insulation resistance and Polarization Index (PI) testing, to ensure maximum operational lifespan.
Circuit Breaker Testing and Rebuilding:
Our service includes exhaustive performance testing, measuring critical parameters such as low contact resistance, verifying insulation integrity with high-potential (Hi-Pot) tests, and confirming accurate timing. Breakers that fail are not simply replaced; they undergo complete rebuilding—a meticulous process of tear-down, cleaning, component replacement, and recalibration—restoring them to meet original factory specifications.
Timing of Circuit Breakers:
This is a vital service that precisely measures the time it takes a breaker to open upon receiving a trip signal. To prevent widespread equipment damage and the severity of potential arc flash events, accurate and rapid operation is non-negotiable for fast fault isolation, thereby ensuring personnel and asset safety.
Trip Unit Retrofit Services:
We modernize aging switchgear by replacing obsolete electromechanical units with advanced solid-state or digital microprocessor-based trip units. This significant upgrade provides enhanced protection and significantly greater selectivity (coordination), enabling seamless integration with modern monitoring and control systems.
Switch Maintenance and Testing:
Our expertise extends to primary isolation devices, such as high-current bolted pressure switches and Pringle switches. Maintenance focuses on cleaning, lubrication, and ensuring perfect blade alignment and high-pressure contact, which prevents damaging hot spots during normal load conditions.
Inspection and Cleaning (Oil Breakers, Contact):
As part of physical maintenance, this task includes testing and conditioning the insulating oil in Oil Circuit Breakers (OCBs). All interior compartments are meticulously cleaned to remove conductive dust, and sensitive surfaces undergo specialized contact cleaning (e.g., silver contact polishing) to ensure minimal resistance and optimal current flow.
Why Choose Blue Runner Switchgear for Low & Medium Voltage Switchgear Testing?
When you work with our skilled experts at Blue Runner Switchgear, you can expect restored reliability, as we guarantee the performance of protective devices, thereby reducing the risk of catastrophic failure. We will also help extend the asset's life by conducting proper switchgear inspections and cleaning, combined with mechanical servicing, which helps prolong the life of costly infrastructure. To top it all off, we also include compliance documentation that demonstrates the provision of certified reports, which meet NETA standards and regulatory requirements.
Our nationwide team has the capability for low & medium voltage switchgear testing from our centralized location across the Southeast and Midwest, ensuring consistent, high-quality service. Prevent the next outage by
contacting our certified switchgear experts today.
