Amesbury
Mechanical
- Jan 14, 2016
- 4
This is my first post here for please forgive me if am doing something wrong.
I am looking for ideas on ways to increase the mechanical advance of a mechanism that operates a 3-phase medium voltage vertical-break switch.
Basically it works like this: At ground level, a person rotates a handle (i.e. 24" long pipe) counter-clockwise and parallel to the ground to open the switch blades. Currently this works, but the person operating the mechanism has to be 'very strong' so I would like to make this easier to operate. The following photos show what this looks like:



I am looking for ideas on ways to increase the mechanical advance of a mechanism that operates a 3-phase medium voltage vertical-break switch.
Basically it works like this: At ground level, a person rotates a handle (i.e. 24" long pipe) counter-clockwise and parallel to the ground to open the switch blades. Currently this works, but the person operating the mechanism has to be 'very strong' so I would like to make this easier to operate. The following photos show what this looks like:


