Fusesaver™ is installed in series with a fuse to prevent fuse blowing due to transient faults reducing truck rolls and maintenance costs.

Replace fuses with Fusesaver™ to clear transient and permanent faults for improved network reliability.

Fusesaver™ is installed downstream of a recloser to isolate permanently faulted line segments reducing number of affected customers.

Fusesaver™ is temporarily mounted for network switching to isolate sections for repair reducing outage times and maintenance costs.

On extreme risk bushfire days, the goal is to eliminate any possible danger caused by electric faults. Arc duration plays a significant role. Minimising the arc energy reduces the fire start risk. Traditional circuit breakers have clearing times around 50 ms, which is long enough to still leave a significant probability that an arc may cause fire ignition. When the clearing time is less than 20 ms, the probability of arcs igniting a fire approaches zero. Fusesaver™ is the only circuit breaker with an unsurpassed clearing time as low as 10 ms (half-cycle) providing maximum protection on high risk fire days.

How Powercor Australia minimises bushfire risks

Powercor delivers electricity to nearly 780,000 homes and businesses in Victoria (Australia). The energy distributor is a located in one of the world’s most bushfire prone areas and manages approx. 90,000 km of distribution lines (87% overhead lines). Watch how Powercor deploys Fusesaver™ on SWER lines to mitigate bushfire risk.