Electrical engineering: 1600 + amp disconnect?

Question

is there a 1600 amp disconnect? or do you use a switch once it gets that high? we need a 1600 - 2000 amp disconnect. if there is please let me know

Answer 1

The only way you are going to find something like that is in heavy industrial equipment.  I think these things are typically special order with a long lead time.  

You may want to split your cable and start running lower amperage disconnects in parallel.  You see this done in a lot of environments where there are heavy current conduits and they don't want all those things going into one disconnect.

Answer 2

ABB makes a 1600 amp disconnect:

http://www.abb-control.com/dxf/cpd/disc_...

http://www.abb-control.com/

Also Bussman:

http://www.bussmann.com/library/docs/Dis...