Distribution-type lightning-arrester performance characteristics: AIEE committee on protective devices

THIS report presents the results of work by the lightning arrester subcommittee to bring up to date and make available to the industry the performance characteristics of present day valve-type distribution arresters having a maximum rating of 3 kv to 15 kv. Distribution arrester characteristics were given in a report by the lightning arrester subcommittee in Electrical Engineering, volume 56, May 1937, page 576. Since that date there have been changes in the arrester. The subcommittee felt it desirable to present up-to-date values and also to include values at higher discharge currents than those previously given.