Practical calculation of circuit transient recovery voltages

WHILE there have been a number of papers on recovery voltage and its effect on the operation of circuit-interrupting devices, and although the transient recovery voltage and its characteristic are assuming a more important place in the design and application of circuit breakers with the growth and increasing capacity of power systems, there has not been available to the average power-company engineer a convenient method for determining this characteristic. The present paper offers such a method and also tabulates capacitance data for the more important circuit elements.