Special Tests on Impulse Circuit Breakers

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 descri...

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Published inTransactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers Vol. 55; no. 6; pp. 710 - 717
Main Author Skeats, Wilfred F.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.06.1936
Subjects
Circuit breakers
Circuit testing
Current supplies
Distributed parameter circuits
Impulse testing
Power transmission lines
Pulse circuits
Voltage measurement
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ISSN0096-3860
DOI10.1109/T-AIEE.1936.5057335

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Summary: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.
ISSN:0096-3860
DOI:10.1109/T-AIEE.1936.5057335