Sell your GE PowerVac vacuum breakers.
5 and 15kV classes, 1200, 2000, and 3000A. Running spares, untested, or for parts. Send the nameplate, get a written offer; we rack out, rig, and haul.
Get an offerWhat this family is
Horizontal drawout in GE metal-clad switchgear. VB1 uses the ML-18 stored energy mechanism. GE metal-clad switchgear at utilities, plants, and campuses. GE's switchgear business is part of ABB now.
| Type | Medium voltage vacuum circuit breakers |
|---|---|
| Type designations | VB1, VB |
| Voltage | 5 and 15kV classes |
| Amperage | 1200, 2000, and 3000A |
| Poles | 3 |
| Where they come from | GE metal-clad switchgear at utilities, plants, and campuses. GE's switchgear business is part of ABB now. |
VB or VB1, then nominal kV, then MVA class, then a design number.
- VB1 units with ML-18 mechanisms are the most common PowerVac in the market.
- Complete, tested breakers carry the most.
- We do not publish prices. Metal, demand, and condition move them. You get a written number for your units.
PowerVac followed Magne-Blast as GE's metal-clad breaker, so plenty of sites have both in the same lineup. The nameplate tells us which you have, and a photo of the front tells us more about the mechanism than any list.
Three photos price a medium voltage breaker.
The nameplate
Type, kV, continuous amps, interrupting rating, and control voltage. Straight on and readable.
The front and mechanism
The breaker front, the operation counter, and the charging motor or handle.
In the lineup
The breaker in its cubicle or on the floor, plus the switchgear nameplate if the gear is coming out too.
- 01Send the nameplates
Type, kV, continuous amps, interrupting rating, control voltage. Plus a photo of the lineup if the gear is coming out.
- 02We read them and reply
During business hours, by text, call, or email.
- 03You get a written offer
Per breaker or for the lineup, with the removal plan included. Subject to inspection.
- 04We rack out, rig, and haul
Our crew and equipment, after your people de-energize and lock out. Wire or ACH within 3 business days of a passed inspection.
Selling GE PowerVac vacuum breakers: what people ask.
Yes, and we can rack out and haul the lineup.
Both. VB1 is the later design with the ML-18 mechanism; the nameplate says which.
Yes. Breakers usually sell better with the lineup they came from, and we can take the whole thing out.
We do. Medium voltage breakers are heavy and the mechanisms are not forgiving; our crew brings the lift truck and rigging. You de-energize and lock out.