• DocumentCode
    1146397
  • Title

    Varistor versus Environment: Winning the Rematch

  • Author

    Martzloff, Franqois D.

  • Author_Institution
    Corporate Research and Development General Electric Company Schenectady, New York 12345
  • Volume
    1
  • Issue
    2
  • fYear
    1986
  • fDate
    4/1/1986 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    59
  • Lastpage
    66
  • Abstract
    An unusual case of difficult application of surge protective devices was solved by field measurements with retrofit of protective devices suitable for the particular environment. Onsite measurements indicated that capacitor switching transients were causing excessive current surges in the varistors and fuses protecting the input to a thyristor motor drive. Knowledge of the environment gained by the measurements allowed understanding of the problem and specification of matching surge protective devices.
  • Keywords
    Capacitors; Current measurement; Fuses; Motor drives; Particle measurements; Surge Protective Devices - c62; Surge protection; Surges; Thyristors; Varistors;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Power Delivery, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0885-8977
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TPWRD.1986.4307934
  • Filename
    4307934
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=1146397