A complete strategy for conducting dynamic contact resistance measurements on HV circuit breakers

IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 710-716

  Landry, Michel ^a   Turcotte, Olivier ^a   Brikci, Fouad ^b  

^a HYDRO QUÉBEC   (Canada)

^b Zensol Automation Inc   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arc byproducts; Circuit breakers (CBs); Dynamic contact resistance measurement; Metallic fluorides

Indexed keywords

CONTACT RESISTANCE; ELECTRIC ARCS; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE MEASUREMENT; QUENCHING;

ARC BYPRODUCTS; DYNAMIC CONTACT RESISTANCE MEASUREMENT; METALLIC FLUORIDES;

ELECTRIC CIRCUIT BREAKERS;

EID: 42249103061     PISSN: 08858977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRD.2008.917694     Document Type: Article

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