Life Tests on Vacuum Switches Breaking 50 Ka Unidirectional Current

IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 1991, Pages 824-832

  Benfatto, I ^a   De Lorenzi, A ^a   Maschio, A ^b   Weigand, W ^c   Timmert, H P ^c   Weyer, H ^c  

^a ASSOCIAZIONE EURATOM ENEA SULLA FUSIONE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^c SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CIRCUIT BREAKERS--RELIABILITY;

INTERRUPTERS; VACUUM SWITCHES;

ELECTRIC SWITCHES;

EID: 0026140132     PISSN: 08858977     EISSN: 19374208     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/61.131141     Document Type: Article

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