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Performance
Three Times the Life — Three Times
the Value
The performance of safety switches is important
to the safe and profitable operation of many
industrial settings. In addition, requirements from
organizations such as OSHA have increased the
use of safety switches in many commercial and
industrial facilities.
The useful life of a safety switch is less than
two years based on NEMA
®
KS-1 life test
requirements, in lockout/tag out applications
where a switch is operated just once per hour, 24
hours a day, seven days a week. For switches in
these high-use applications, durability is key.
VisiPacT safety switches provide significantly
higher levels of mechanical endurance than
NEMA KS-1 require. This translates to improved
reliability in a production environment. In fact,
the standard for the design life of VisiPacT safety
switches is a minimum of three times the NEMA
requirement. No competitor comes close to the
performance oered by VisiPacT safety switches.
Designed for the Best Performance
A key performance benefit of the VisiPacT safety switch is its ability to break
load. A locked motor can draw six to eight times motor full-load current.
In an emergency situation, it’s important to have a switch with enhanced
load break capability. A key element of VisiPacT safety switches is their blade
and jaw construction designs built to easily manage heavy motor loads and
arc interruptions.
Potential Cost Avoidance Due to Square D Switch Life
Operations
of switch/
8-hour shift
Operations
per year
in 24/7
environment
Life of
Square D
switch in
years
(1)
Life of
competitive
switch in
years
(1)
Cost
avoidance
by using
Square D
(2)
1
1,095 45.7 13.7 $190
2 2,190 22.8 6.8 $380
3 3,285 15.2 4.6 $570
4 4,380 11.4 3.4 $760
5 5,475 9.1 2.7 $950
(1)
Life determination based on 50,000 operations for 30 A and 15,000 operations for
competition. Actual number of operations will vary based upon electrical load, duty cycle,
and environmental conditions.
(2)
Does not include cost of lost productivity. Switch cost replacement: labor = 2 hour
@ $45/hour cost of switch @ $100. Maximum usable life of switch assumed to be 20 years.
VisiPacT safety switches are
built for use in the United States,
Canada, and Mexico and are
UL Listed in all three countries.
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