The Schneider Electric product is part of the XCS range, an offer of safety switches. The safety switch is an electrical switch that makes or breaks contact in the presence of a magnetic field. It has 2 normally closed + 1 normally opened, slow break contacts, normally closed contact with positive opening operation. It is a switch with a rated operational current of 1.5A at 240V AC, 3A at 120V AC, 0.27A at 250V DC, 0.55 at 125V DC and a conventional enclosed thermal current of 6A. It is designed to operate in hazardous environments. It is furnished with screw clamp terminals for electrical connection and 2 cable entry tapped for M20 x 1.5 cable gland. It offers long mechanical durability which is about 1 million operating cycles It is an IP67 rated product
These safety interlock switches are suitable for protecting operators of potentially dangerous machines with inertia