In House Breaker Testing
During a long and successful career as employee and owner of a four location electrical wholesale supply business, our Founder began a second wholesale distribution business to provide specialty electrical distribution apparatus not only to his own firm, but to cater to the construction needs of contractors and industry well outside his firm’s traditional geographic boundaries. After selling his electrical supply business in the mid ‘90s, he took up his new career at Breaker King, dedicating his time, energy and experience to growing and shaping his fledgling enterprise. The business relocated to a new, much larger, custom designed office and warehouse facility in early 2001, and the following year, purchased the circuit breaker testing business and equipment of Circuit Protection Industries and integrated that full service breaker testing lab into the operations. Since its founding 30 years ago, Breaker King has become one of the most recognized, trusted and respected suppliers of replacement and add-on electrical distribution components and hardware in the country.
We have many years of experience in evaluating the service condition of molded case circuit breakers. Once a thorough inspection has been completed, our clients are given a RE-QUALIFICATION estimate. Upon estimate approval, the breakers are carefully cleaned and put through our usual battery of NEMA AB4* tests. Our testing and quality control procedure has but one goal, and that is electrical safety. Every molded case circuit breaker undergoes a thorough inspection, cleaning and NEMA AB4* testing procedure that we call “Re-qualification” to ensure that the end product is suitable for re-application for the safe and reliable control and distribution of electrical energy. Tested breakers are carefully shrink wrapped to prevent environmental contamination during shipment or storage. All tested/”Re-qualified” molded case circuit breakers are backed by our 1 year replacement warranty.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Molded case breakers that show evidence of overheating, have cracked or broken cases, have been exposed to water or fire damage, have burned contacts or defective internal mechanical mechanisms CANNOT be returned to service and should be replaced. Breaker King DOES NOT RECONDITION circuit breakers. The NEMA Policy on reconditioned electrical equipment defines reconditioning as “the process of restoring electromechanical systems, equipment, apparatus or components to operating conditions as recommended by the manufacturer’s instructions, using only design qualified parts.” This definition assumes that the item in question is NOT in proper working condition, most likely does not conform to it’s original design performance standards, and thus requires “field repairs, modifications or component replacements.”
WE DO NOT REPAIR, MODIFY OR REPLACE MECHANICAL COMPONENTS and therefore do not engage in the reconditioning of circuit breakers. Our “Re-qualification” services include the inspection, evaluation and cleaning of fully functioning breakers as well as thorough testing to ensure that the breaker is in compliance with industry accepted test parameters.
* NEMA AB4 is the NEMA Standards Publication which details the guidelines for inspection and preventative maintenance of molded case circuit breakers used in commercial and industrial applications.
In House Breaker Testing
We have many years of experience in evaluating the service condition of molded case circuit breakers. Once a thorough inspection has been completed, our clients are given a RE-QUALIFICATION estimate. Upon estimate approval, the breakers are carefully cleaned and put through our usual battery of NEMA AB4* tests. Our testing and quality control procedure has but one goal, and that is electrical safety. Every molded case circuit breaker undergoes a thorough inspection, cleaning and NEMA AB4* testing procedure that we call “Re-qualification” to ensure that the end product is suitable for re-application for the safe and reliable control and distribution of electrical energy. Tested breakers are carefully shrink wrapped to prevent environmental contamination during shipment or storage. All tested/”Re-qualified” molded case circuit breakers are backed by our 1 year replacement warranty.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Molded case breakers that show evidence of overheating, have cracked or broken cases, have been exposed to water or fire damage, have burned contacts or defective internal mechanical mechanisms CANNOT be returned to service and should be replaced. Breaker King DOES NOT RECONDITION circuit breakers. The NEMA Policy on reconditioned electrical equipment defines reconditioning as “the process of restoring electromechanical systems, equipment, apparatus or components to operating conditions as recommended by the manufacturer’s instructions, using only design qualified parts.” This definition assumes that the item in question is NOT in proper working condition, most likely does not conform to it’s original design performance standards, and thus requires “field repairs, modifications or component replacements.”
WE DO NOT REPAIR, MODIFY OR REPLACE MECHANICAL COMPONENTS and therefore do not engage in the reconditioning of circuit breakers. Our “Re-qualification” services include the inspection, evaluation and cleaning of fully functioning breakers as well as thorough testing to ensure that the breaker is in compliance with industry accepted test parameters.
* NEMA AB4 is the NEMA Standards Publication which details the guidelines for inspection and preventative maintenance of molded case circuit breakers used in commercial and industrial applications.