Design features and benefits

• Replace three components with one DirectConnect elbow arrester

• Save material costs with the DirectConnect arrester over bushing extender,

loadbreak reducing tap plug, and 200 A elbow arrester

• Reduce stocking requirements

• Shorter stacking height

• Decrease stacking height more than 50%

• Fits into smaller enclosures

• Reduces pulling force due to elimination of cantilever effect

• Easily retrofittable to existing 600 A installations

• Simply replace the bushing extender, loadbreak reducing tap plug and 200 A elbow

arrester with an adapter and a DirectConnect elbow arrester

• TOV performance

• Enhanced temporary overvoltage characteristics

• 36 kV—highest TOV in the industry

• Arresters that will survive higher AC overvoltages, reducing downtime

• Increased system reliability

• EPDM molded rubber deadfront construction

• 40+ years of experience in EPDM rubber cable accessories and 27+ years

of elbow arrester technology

• Eaton is the only separable connector manufacturer that mixes and blends its own

insulation in-house

• Eaton’s chemists maintain control of the formulation at all times

• Ease of installation

• Cuts installation time by 80% versus installing three components

• Visually can verify contact with threads, which reduces chance of cross threading

• No special training required for linemen or contractors

Standard design tests

• IEEE Std 386E separable insulated connector systems

• IEEE Std C62.11 metal oxide surge arresters for AC power circuits