DocumentCode
1010259
Title
Special Tests on Impulse Circuit Breakers
Author
Skeats, Wilfred F.
Author_Institution
General Electric Co., Schenectady, N. Y.
Volume
55
Issue
6
fYear
1936
fDate
6/1/1936 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
710
Lastpage
717
Abstract
A novel circuit arrangement that supplies a large current to a circuit breaker under test and then subjects the open terminals to a high recovery voltage has been used in testing the 2,500,000-kva 287.5-kv impulse oil circuit breakers built for the Boulder Dam-Los Angeles transmission line. A description of this arrangement, which makes available several times the apparent power of the testing apparatus, is given in this paper, together with oscillograms which show details of the arc extinction process not previously known, and the results of a study of voltage distribution.
Keywords
Circuit breakers; Circuit testing; Current supplies; Distributed parameter circuits; Impulse testing; Power transmission lines; Pulse circuits; Voltage measurement;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
American Institute of Electrical Engineers, Transactions of the
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0096-3860
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/T-AIEE.1936.5057335
Filename
5057335
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