What differance between Circuit brekar and Isolater?

Answer Posted / ankit

In the simplest form:

An ISOLATOR is a manual circuit breaker while Circuit
Breaker does this with the help of a relay.

Regarding the arc quenching medium, isolator too have air
as arc quenching medium.

And,

An iso. is an off-load device but a CB is onload.

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