More about arc-fault circuit interrupters

IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1006-1011

  Gregory, George D ^a   Wong, Kon ^a   Dvorak, Robert F ^a  

^a Schneider Electric/Square D Co   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC ARCS; ELECTRIC CIRCUIT BREAKERS; ELECTRIC FAULT CURRENTS; OVERCURRENT PROTECTION; PROBABILITY; SIGNAL DETECTION;

ARC FAULT CIRCUIT INTERRUPTERS; ARC FAULT DETECTION; ARC SIGNAL DETECTION;

ELECTRIC EQUIPMENT PROTECTION;

EID: 3242887276     PISSN: 00939994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIA.2004.831287     Document Type: Article

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