Construction of an impulse current generator prototype applied in electrical grounding systems

• Published in: 2015 CHILEAN Conference on Electrical, Electronics Engineering, Information and Communication Technologies (CHILECON) pp. 649 - 653
• Main Authors: Ferraz, Rafael, Oliveira, Sostenes, Silva, Alan, Nerys, Jose, Alves, Aylton, Calixto, Wesley
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.10.2015
• Subjects: atmospheric discharges; Clouds; Computers; Discharges (electric); Generators; Grounding; grounding system; high frequency electric systems; impulse current generator; Lightning; Soil

This paper presents a device that is able to reproduce atmospheric discharges in a small scale. First, there was simulated an impulse generator circuit that could meet the main characteristics of the common lightning strokes waveform. Later, four different generator circuits were developed with the...