Photovoltaic DC arc fault detector testing at Sandia National Laboratories

Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 003614-003619

  Johnson, Jay ^a   Pahl, Birger ^b   Luebke, Charles ^b   Pier, Tom ^b   Miller, Theodore ^b   Strauch, Jason ^a   Kuszmaul, Scott ^a   Bower, Ward ^a  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b EATON CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTI-ISLANDING; ARC FAULT DETECTION; ARC FAULTS; BALANCE OF SYSTEMS; DETECTION CAPABILITY; DISTRIBUTED ENERGIES; EATON CORPORATIONS; MAXIMUM POWER POINT TRACKING; NATIONAL ELECTRICAL CODE; NOISE SOURCE; NUISANCE TRIPPING; NUISANCE TRIPS; OPERATIONAL NOISE; PHOTOVOLTAIC; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEMS; PV ARRAYS; PV MODULES; RECONFIGURABLE ARRAY; RELATIVE LOCATION; SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES; SERIES ARC-FAULT; SYSTEM RESPONSE; SYSTEM TOPOLOGY; TRIP SIGNALS;

DC-DC CONVERTERS; ELECTRIC FAULT CURRENTS; FAULT DETECTION; FREQUENCY BANDS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; SIGNAL DETECTION;

PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS;

EID: 84861065082     PISSN: 01608371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PVSC.2011.6185930     Document Type: Conference Paper

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