What is the difference between switchgear and circuit breakers.

Switchgear is the component such as,circuitbreaker,disconnecting switches,fuses,&insulators.

And the circuit breaker is the device to make ON/OFF the supply during normal condition and it get disconnected during ubnormal condition such asoverload/ short circuit or earth faults

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Originally Posted by JaffarMBasha

Switchgear is the component such as,circuitbreaker,disconnecting switches,fuses,&insulators.

and the circuit breaker is the device to make ON/OFF the supply during normal condition and it get disconnected during ubnormal condition such asoverload/ short circuit or earth faults

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Switchgear is a device by which we can change the supply voltage one line to other line
Avd circuit braker is a switch, which can be close or open in either normal or fault condition . Whenever a fault occure in supply system we can brake the circuit and give the proper maintenance