INSPECTION CHECK LIST FOR SWITCHGEARS.

REFERENCE DOCUMENTS: 1. TCE - M4 - 219 - 11 (R5 ).

2. CONTRACT DOCUMENT.

3. APPROVED VENDOR DRAWING.

SL.NO ITEM PARAMETER / SERVICE TO BE REF. CL. NO. OF TCE-M4 INSPECTOR'S

DESCRIPTION CHECKED COMMENTS

A SWITCHGEAR - GENERAL CHECKS As per approved vendor

drawings for G.A of the
1.0 Dimensions panel.

a) Length

b) Depth

c) Height Not greater than 2450mm as per cl.

no. 5.1 (i)

2.0 Material

a) Frames Cold rolled sheet steel of thickness> Cl no. 3.1 of writeup & cl.
2.5mm no.3.1 of data sheet

b) Enclosures Cold rolled sheet steel of thickness> Cl. no. 3.2 of write up & cl.
2.0mm or Hot rolled sheet steel of no. 3.1 of data sheet A1
thickness> 2.5mm

c)Doors& covers Cold rolled sheet steel of thickness>

1.6mm or Hot rolled sheet steel of
thickness> 2.0mm

3.0 Painting

i) Procedure Painting procedure adopted is to be As per contract document.

checked. ( oven baked or powder
coating )

ii) Painting shade Interior : Glossy white cl. no. 3.3 of data sheet A1

Exterior : Shade 631

iii) painting 100 < Painting thickness < cl. no. 4.8 of TCE M4
thickness 150Microns.

4.0 Degree of IP 52. No specific procedure is there cl. no. 5.1 (d)
protection to test. Panel to be checked in
general for dust proof enclosure.
Type test certificates to be checked.
5.0 End covers Check whether end covers are cl. no. 5.1 (e)
provided on both sides of the panel to
facilitate future extension

6.0 Steel channel Check whether steel channel was cl. no. 5.1 ( f )
provided on the bottom of the panel

7.0 Labels Check whether panel identification cl. no. 5.1 ( g )

label was provided on both front and
rear side of the panel

8.0 Gland plates

i) Location Removable gland plates on top or Location as per contract

bottom of the panel document & Vendor dwgs.

ii) Material For 1 core cables - Non magnetic cl. no. 5.1 (k)
material

For all other cables - Same as that of

panel

9.0 Gaskets Check whether gaskets are provided cl. no. 5.1 (k )
all round the perimeter of covers,
doors etc.

10.0 Minimum height Check whether any equipment cl. no. 5.2
of the needing manual operation is located
equipment less than 250mm above ground level

11.0 Bus bar Should be either on the top or bottom cl. no. 5.2 ( l )
chamber of the panel running along the length
of the panel in a separate enclosure.

12.0 Vertical sections

i) Busbar Completely metal enclosed Cl. no. 5.3 (a )

compartment busbar compartment

ii) Vertical Vertical busbars shall be Cl. no. 5.3 ( c )

busbars enclosed and insulating barriers
with cutouts shall be provided.

iii) Cable alley Vertical cable alley covering the Cl. no. 5.3 ( d )
entire height of the panel. The
width of the cable alley shall be
min 200mm for motor modules
and shall be 500mm for breaker
modules.

iv) Auxiliary & A separate, horizontal enclosure Cl. no. 5.3 (e )

control for auxiliary and control buses
 buses. shall be provided.

v) Space Each vertical section shall be Cl. no. 5.4

heaters. provided with space heaters
located in cable alley.

vi) Partition a) Check for a metal sheet Cl. no. 5.5

sheets between two adjacent vertical
sections.

b) For shipping sections, metal Cl. no. 5.5

sheets shall be on both the
sides.

13.0 Doors a) Hinged doors for all module Cl. no. 5.6
doors

b) Hinged doors for all cable Cl. no. 5.12

alleys

c) Removable panels for rear side Cl. no. 5.13

of the panel

d) All doors shall be with Cl. no. 5.14

concealed type hinges and
captive screws.

14.0 Louvers No ventilating louvers shall be Cl. no. 5.20

provided unless it is a must. If
provided, they shall be covered
with fine screened brass or GI
mesh.

15.0 Main busbars

i) Material Aluminium or Copper Cl. no. 2.0 of Data sh.

A1

ii) Size Width X Depth X No. of parallel As per approved vendor

runs dwgs.

iii) Clearances Phase to phase - 25.4mm Cl. no. 3.6 of data sheet
A!
Phase to earth - 19.4

iv) Sleeving All bus bars and bus taps shall Cl. no. 7.5
be sleeved.

v) Joints All busbar joints shall be Cl. no. 7.5

shrouded with removable
moulded shrouds of fiber glass
reinforced polyester.

vi) Colour band Sleeving is to be colour coded to Cl. no. 7.5

indicate R, Y & B. If it is black, it
shall be colour coded at suitable
 intervals.

vii) Bus bar a) Busbar supports shall be of Cl. no. 7.6

supports Hylam sheets or glass
reinforced moulded plastic
material or permali wood or
cast resin.

b) Separate supports for each Cl. no. 7.7

phase. In case of a common
support, anti tracking barrirs
shall be provided.

viii) Joints Shall be bolted with belleville Cl. no. 7.8

washers and nuts

16.0 Control bus a) shall be copper busbar Cl. no. 7.9

b) shall be sleeved

17.0 Space heater a) Material shall be same as that

supply bus of main buses.

b) shall be sleeved

18.0 Earth bus a) Check the material type. Cl. no. 3.4 of data sheet
A1.
b) Check the size.

c) Clamp type terminals with nuts, Cl. no. 29.0

bolts and washers shall be
provided at either end of the
bus bars.

d) If earth bus bar is to provided

near the top, one down comer
at either end shall be provided.

e) Shall be supported at suitable

intervals

f) All panel doors, frames of Cl. no. 29.3

equipment mounted shall be
earthed either with CU wires or
with busbars.

19.0 Switches a) Whenever solid links are used Cl. no. 9.5
between switch & fuse, link
shall be covered with insulated
sleeves.

b) All live parts of switches shall Cl. no. 9.6

be shrouded.

c) All switches shall have pad Cl. no. 9.7

locking facility in OFF position.
 d) It shall be possible to open the Cl. no. 9.8.1
door only when switch is OFF.

e) It shall not be possible to close Cl. no. 9.8.2

the switch with door open.

f) It shall be possible to bypass Cl. no. 9.9

the above two interlocks.

20.0 Fuses a) It shall be of HRC Catridge Cl. no. 10.1

type.

b) Shall be provided with visible Cl. no. 10.2

indication to show fuse
operation.

21.0 Thermal a) Shall have adjustable settings. Cl. no. 11.5.1

overload
relays b) Shall be of hand reset type. Cl. no. 11.5.2

c) Hand reset push button shall Cl. no. 11.5.4

be brought out on to the front
of the door.

22.0 MCCB ON, OFF & TRIP positions shall Cl. no. 12.2
be clearly indicated and must be
visible to the operator.

23.0 CT's

i) Measuring Min 10VA, class 1.0 & ISF 5. Cl. no. 14.3.1
CT's

ii) Protection Min 15VA, class 5P & ALF 10 Cl. no.14.3.2

CT's

iii) Test links Test links shall be provided in Cl. no. 14.5
both secondary leads of the CT's

iv) Earth links CT's shall be earthed through a Cl. no. 14.6
separate earth link

24.0 VT's

i) Measuring Min 50VA/phase, class 1.0 Cl. no. 15.2.1

VT's

ii) Protection Min 50VA/phase, class 3.0 Cl. no. 15.2.2

VT's

iii) Dual Min 100VA/phase, class 1.0/3.0 Cl. no. 15.2.3

purpose
VT's

iv) Secondary All secondary windings shall be Cl. no.15.3

windings 110v/ph
 v) Fuses Fuses shall be provided in Cl. no. 15.5
primary and secondary sides.

vi) Earth link VT secondary shall be earthed Cl. no. 15.7

through an isolating link.

25.0 Relays i) Check wheather flag indicators Cl. no. 16.2.3

are visible from the front.

ii) Access to setting devices shall Cl no. 16.3

be possible only after the
covers are removed.

iii) Access to resetting devices Cl. no. 16.3

shall be external to the case.

26.0 Single phase i) Required or not is to be

preventor checked from contract
document.

ii) Ressetting shall be of hand Cl. no. 17.2

reset type with a hand reset
push button.

iii) Visual indication for the Cl. no. 17.2

operation of the relay.

27.0 Transformers i) Requirement & sheme to be

for control, checked as per the contract
space heating document.
and
annunciator ii) Control trnsformer ratings shall Cl no. 18.2
supplies. be as follows;

For K11, K21 & R21

modules - 75 VA

For L11, L21 modules - 100

VA

For motors above 31 KW -

300VA

iii) Transformers of 500vA and Cl no. 18.3

above shall be controlled by
switches on the primary side.

iv) common control transformers Cl. no. 18.4

shall have fuses on all line
leads.

v) Individual module CT's shall Cl. no. 18.4

have fuse only in the line lead
of secondary winding.
 vi) Neutral or earth lead shall Cl. no. 18.4
have earth link.

28.0 Indicating i) Min 96 mm square size. Cl. no. 19.1

metres.
ii) 90 scale deflection. Cl. no. 19.1

iii) Ammetres in motor circuits Cl. no. 19.4

shall have suppressed
extended scale to indicate
motor starting current.

iv) Class of accuracy 1.5 Cl. no. 19.1

v) Dial shall be white with black Cl. no. 19.3

numerals.

vi) Zero adjustment provision from Cl. no. 19.2

outside the cover.

vii) Watthour meter shall be of Cl. no. 19.5

cyclometer type.

29.0 Indicating Should be easily replaceable from Cl. no. 20.2

lamps. the front.

30.0 Control switch i) Shall be of rotary type. Cl. no. 21.1.1

ii) Shall be with escutcheon plates Cl. no. 21.1.3

marked to show the position.

iii) Shall be of spring return to Cl. no. 21.2.1

neutral type.

iv) Shall have pistol grip type Cl. no. 21.2.2

handles.

v) Selector switches shall have Cl. no. 21.5.2

oval handles.

31.0 Push buttons i) Start, open and close PB's Cl. no. 22.2
shall be in green colour.

ii) Stop PB shall be in red colour. Cl. no. 22.3

iii) All other PB's shall be black in Cl. no. 22.4

colour.

iv) Shall be with integral Cl. no. 22.1.3

escutcheon plates marked with
its function.

v) Emergency stop push button Cl. no. 22.5

shall be of lockable in pushed
position type and shall be
 shrouded.

32.0 Space heaters i) Shall have single pole MCB Cl. no. 23.1.2
whenever space heater
transformer is provided.
otherwise switch fuse unit with
neutral link shall be provided.

ii)Shall have thermostats to cut Cl. no. 23.1.3

off the heater at 45 C.

33.0 a) Glands Shall be of single or double Cl. no. 25.1

compression type as asked for in
the contract document.They shall
be of heavy duty brass cable
glands.

b) Lugs Crimping type, tinned copper Cl. no. 25.5

lugs.

34.0 Internal wiring i) wires shall be of 1100V/650V Cl. no. 26.1

grade PVC insulated stranded.

ii)For power circuits - Min 4

sq.mm copper wire opr eqvt.
aluminium wire

iii) For CTl circuits - 2.5 sq.mm

copper

iv) For other control circuits - 1.5

sq.mm copper

v) Ferrules shall be of yellow in Cl. no. 26.2

colour with black lettering.

vi) Tripping circuit of breaker Cl. no. 26.3

module shall have an
additional red ferrule marked
T.

vii) All spare modules shall be Cl. no. 26.6

wired.

viii) Terminal blocks shall be of Cl. no. 26.7

stud type.

35.0 Terminal i) Terminals shall be shrouded. Cl. no. 27.2

blocks
ii) Terminals shall be numbered Cl. no. 27.4
with white on black labels.

iii) Terminal blocks for CT Cl. no. 27.6

secondary lead wires shall be
with shorting and
disconnectingm / earthing
 facilities.

36.0 Labels i) White letters on a black Cl. no. 28.1

background.

ii) Size of letters shall be 6mm. Cl. no. 28.4

37.0 Circuit Functional checks shall be carried As per cl. no. 8.0 and as
breakers. out on circuit breakers. per wiring diagrams.

38.0 Motor Functional checks shall be carried As per approved control

modules. out on at least one for each type wiring diagrams.
of module.

39.0 Window type Functional checks shall be done. As per cl. no. 24.0 and
alarm as per approved vendor
annunciators. drawings.

40.0 General a) check for provision of lifting

hooks.

b) check for no. of shipping

sections.

c) Check for any dents on the

panel, uniformity of painting
shades, scratches in painting,
general workmanship etc.

d) Check for adequacy of cabling

space and adequacy of cable
supporting slotted angles upto
the terminal blocks for
supporting the cable cores.

e) check for provision of danger

notice plate on the panel.

f) Check wheather earth

conductor / earth bus bar has
been identified as ----- as per cl.
no. 7.1.9.3 of IS 13947 ( part 1.)

B ROUTINE TESTS.

a) Insulation resistance measurement on control circuits.

b) Insulation resistance measurement on power circuits.

c) Insulation resistance measurement on auxiliary circuits circuits.

d) High voltage test on power circuits.

e) High voltage test on control circuits.

f) High voltage test on auxialary circuits.

g) Functional test of various accessories and auxialary.

h) For tests on individual equipment, refer to individual inspection check list for those equipment.