Watteredge convection cooled Solvent Extraction Electrowinning shorting frames, also known as SXEW shorting frames, are manufactured with years of experience and award winning quality processes resulting in the best SXEW shorting frame available on the market today.

Our Shorting Frames Manufacturing Design Advantage

We design and manufacture shorting frames using our proprietary flexible DC Vacuum contacts that are self-adjusting. The rigid copper frame leverages a convection air cooled design that imparts low resistance and low maintenance.

Our shorting frames last hundreds of operations without Vacuum Contact Module (VCM) replacement with minimal plant down time to short (1) one, (2) two or (3) three EW cells.

Providing efficient power use year after year, our SXEW shorting frames offer production gains that cost justify purchase in months.

Shorting Frame Specifications

• Open Switches up to 50kA / 20V DC
• Close Switches up to 60 kA
• Proprietary DC Vacuum Contacts. Interrupt current with no external arcing – low maintenance.
• Copper Frame with Flex Contacts -rigid construction and optimum Anode/Cathode self-adjusting contacts
• Convection Air Cooled Design

Shorting Frame Features

• Low resistance for efficient power use year after year.
• Thousands of operations without VCM replacement
• Easy Assembly / Frame Maintenance

Shorting Frames Options and Accessories

• Anode/Cathode Self-Adjusting Contacts
• Optional integrated PLC Controller- Cell Performance and Frame Maintenance Monitors
• Monitoring and maintenance interface

Typical Configurations

• Electrolytic Cell Shorting SPST*/DPDT**
• Convection Air Cooled Design
• Rigid Frame Construction

*SPST – Single Pole Single Throw
**DPDT – Double Pole Double Throw