Easily Incorporate the New Smart VFI Switchgear with Integrated Control Options into Your Distribution Automation System

This easy-to-use intelligent switchgear not only saves time and money, but is built to quickly adapt to technological advances you can expect from your distribution automation system.

Reliability demands continue to increase on medium voltage distribution systems. Critical loads such as data centers, entertainment districts, and hospitals need dependable, reliable power delivery. Renewable distributed generation sources need a stable means of connecting to the utility grid with a way to monitor the connection. Automation is a strategy to carry these loads with feed redundancy, remote monitoring, and advanced protection capabilities. By integrating Eaton Cooper Power Systems VFI underground distribution switchgear with our field-proven automation solutions, and drawing on our expertise and breadth of products, we have created Smart VFI solutions for customers with these demanding requirements.

Smart VFI switchgear combines advanced tap and loop protection with metering, SCADA functionality, and highly flexible and powerful automation capabilities in a single integrated package—reducing downtime and boosting overall reliability. The flexibility of the graphical ProView™ software with the IDEA Workbench™ application allows the control to adapt to future requirements. Smart VFI switchgear provides the best integrated solution for your distribution automation needs.

• Save time and money with quick fault location and efficient grid restoration
• Easily Incorporate the New Smart VFI Switchgear with Integrated Control Options into Your Distribution Automation System, This easy-to-use intelligent switchgear not only saves time and money, but is built to quickly adapt to technological advances you can expect from your distribution automation system.
• Customized Solutions to Fit YOUR Needs: Smart VFI switchgear provides the ability to create a customized equipment package for many applications.
• Easily Integrate Into Your Distribution Automation System: The Edison™ Idea™ relay and control platform paired with ProView software: provides easy integration, control, and monitoring.
• VFI Underground Distribution Switchgear: VFI underground distribution switchgear provides superior overcurrent protection through the use of proven, reliable Cooper Power Systems vacuum interrupters. The resettable VFI interrupter allows immediate service restoration, eliminating the added expense and downtime associated with stocking and replacing fuses.
• Easy-to-Use Control Options: All Edison Idea relays and controls use Eaton Cooper Power Systems ProView application software, the same powerful, easy-to-use platform used by the Form 6 recloser control. The IDEA Workbench, a revolutionary graphical software programming environment, is a feature of ProView that permits the user to add additional protection and control functionality to any Edison Idea relay or control by means of downloadable custom software modules. This ability provides a continuous upgrade path that not only protects the initial investment in the relay, but also provides a means to increase the control’s functionality in response to changing regulatory, power quality, and reliability concerns.
• Smart VFI Control Options: Smart VFI switchgear with single-phase or three-phase protection and resettable vacuum fault interrupters is available with multiple control options.
• The Smart VFI Green Solution: Eaton Cooper Power Systems has been developing biodegradable liquid dielectric products, including globally recognized Envirotemp™ FR3™ fluid, for more than 25 years. Our biodegradable E200 fluid is a clear, low-viscosity fluid with excellent thermal and dielectric properties across the full temperature range for switchgear. All of this combined with a fire point greater than 300 °C makes E200 fluid ideally-suited for switchgear applications. E200 fluid is the environmentally preferred choice for VFI switchgear.