Twentieth century handbook for steam engineers and electricians, with questions and answers; a practical nontechnical treatise on the care and management of steam engines, boilers and electric machinery (1922)
Swingle, Calvin Franklin, 1846- [from old catalog] · Chicago, F. J. Drake & company · leaf 1375
s that 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… … 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…
