Twentieth century handbook for steam engineers and electricians, with questions and answers; a practical nontechnical treatise .. (1916)
Swingle, Calvin F. (Calvin Franklin), b. 1846 · Chicago, F.J. Drake & company · leaf 1358
higher willbe the voltage required to reverse the arc. As the temper-ature of the arc depends upon the boiling point of thecathode metal, in very much the same way as the temper- Lightning Arresters 1323 ature of steam depends upon the boiling point of the water,metals with low boiling points are… … Fig. 623 STATION ARRESTER through resistance, especially when in series with multigaps,and therefore series resistance should not be used. At thesame time it is very desirable in some way to limit the cur-rent. This problem has at last been solved by use of a lowshunt resistance, shunting a part of…
