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Tutorial on lightning and overvoltage protection

Conference ·
OSTI ID:256839
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  1. Power Technologies, Inc., Schenectady, NY (United States)

This paper is a tutorial on lightning and overvoltage protection and contains the overheads used in the presentation. The topics of the tutorial include characteristics of lightning, system overvoltage, silicon carbide vs. MOV arresters, classes of arresters, arrester selection, insulation coordination, effects of traveling waves and line protection.

OSTI ID:
256839
Report Number(s):
CONF-9510194--
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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