Load break switches for all your applications

To ensure electrical separation during maintenance operations, or for emergency breaking to prevent a risk of fire or electrical shock, it is essential that dedicated photovoltaic switches are used.
These devices must be installed at each functional level of the installation based on its architecture.
In order to disconnect a direct current photovoltaic string, generator or UpS, only SIRCO PV or SIRCO MC PV devices can:
• Isolate the associated high DC voltages ,
• guarantee safe on-load disconnection several thousand times across the full range of DC currents linked to daily fluctuations in sunlight, up to 1500 VDC.

SIRCOs have been designed for industrial use. They are extremely robust, with casings made from glass fibre-reinforced thermoset materials, bringing numerous benefits:
• Stable temperatures, unlike some thermoplastics,
• Excellent resistance to high temperatures,
• good electrical characteristics: Arc and insulation resistance,
• good mechanical characteristics: Dimensional stability and rigidity over time.
These benefits are particularly important in photovoltaic installations, where the temperature may be below 0°C or above 50°C.

The SOCOMEC range of photovoltaic load break switches enables simultaneous on-load disconnection of two circuits using a single handle.
Advantages
• Space saving: The overall width is the same as that of 3 or 4 pole devices. This enables significant savings, as compared to the use of two separate devices.
• Simple connection and integration.
• Increasing the voltage: Connecting the two devices in series allows on-load disconnection of voltages above 1000 VDC.
• Doubling the rating: by connecting the two devices in parallel.