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    Use of shunt trips vs UV trips

    Hi guys Thanks for your replies, but maybe I did not explain myself so well. I am not talking about a trip on low system voltage, but the means of actually trippping the breaker from a shutdown system. The application is the use of tripping means on circuit breakers on an offshore gas platform...
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    Use of shunt trips vs UV trips

    Hi I am currently doing brownfields work on offshore platforms in the oil and gas industry. Can anyone explain why I continually come across the use of shunt trips in critical systems isolation circuits ( eg ESD trip of power ), when an undervoltage trip coil is fail safe, eg if the wire falls...

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