Monitoring Pole Discrepancies in Switchgear

A switchgear for isolating a power system, the switchgear comprising:

• three individually poled breakers;
• a timer circuit actuated after a preset time delay in response to a discrepancy in position of the three individually poled breakers, the timer circuit comprising three contacts, each contact associated with one of the three individually poled breakers;
• and
• a supervisory relay comprising a status lamp, a first normally open contact connected to the status lamp, a circuit breaker closing coil, and a second normally open contact connected to the circuit breaker closing coil, the supervisory relay connected to the timer circuit such that power to the timer circuit energizes the supervisory relay and closes the first and the second normally open contacts.