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 1375
t the high frequency discharge across these gapsis not followed by the dynamic current; the dynamic shunt- 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 Fig. 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…
