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 1367
eparate arresters. This is thecumulative 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… … Fig. 628connections fob 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 ^…
