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 1369
the high frequency discharge across these gapsis not followed by the dynamic current; the dynamic shunt- i 1340 Steam Engineering ing at once to the low resistance. The discharge takes placeover all the gaps^ but the arcs between the gaps shuntedby the low resistances are very small compared with… … GROUND Fig. 631form fl, 2,200-volt multigap arrester for stations An oscillogram of this phenomenon is shown in Pig. 632.The only current in the shunted gaps is the current of staticdischarge. It should be noted;, however, that the currentshown is not a measure of the true current, as the…
