Twentieth century hand-book for steam engineers and electricians with questions and answers; a practical non-technical treatise .. (1913)
Swingle, Calvin Franklin, 1846- [from old catalog] · Chicago, F. J. Drake & company · leaf 1361
arate arresters. This is theicumulative or breaking back action. When a lightning strain between line and ground takesplace, the potential is carried down the high resistance, H,to the series gaps, GS, and the series gaps spark over. Al- 1332 Steam Engineering though it may require several thousand… … Fig. 628connections for 33,000-volt delta or ungrounded y systems is reduced practically to ground potential. If the highresistance can carry the discharge current without givingan ohmic drop sufficient to break down the shunted gapsGH, nothing further occurs—^the arc goes out. If, on the Lightning…
