Sentence examples for lightning arrester from inspiring English sources
noun
A device used on electrical and telecommunications systems to protect the insulation and conductors from the damaging effects of lightning. Typically, it has a high-voltage terminal and a ground terminal. When a surge travels along the power line to the arrester, the current from the surge is diverted through the arrester, in most cases to earth.
He invented the autovalve lightning arrester, a device for the protection of large power-distribution systems, and he studied the effect of thunderstorms on electric-power transmission and distribution circuits.
Usage of SiC columns was originally intended to eliminate the need for the spark gap in a lightning arrester.
3. Inspecting and testing lightning arresters, line circuit breakers, switches, and grounds.
2. Inspecting and testing lightning arresters, circuit breakers, switches, and grounds.
The above tower is equipped with cable heads, lightning arresters and vertical cabling.
Protection of the contents of a structure can be enhanced by using lightning arresters to reduce any transient currents and voltages that might be caused by the discharge and that might propagate into the structure as traveling waves on any electric power or telephone wires exposed to the outside environment.
The earliest electrical application of SiC was in lightning arresters in electric power systems.
Gapped SiC lightning arresters were used as lightning-protection tool and sold under GE and Westinghouse brand names, among others.
Other essential components provided in the bridge structure are the handrails, lightning arresters, crash barriers, gas service support structures, telephone and electric lines, lifts in the pylons, and a maintenance gantry.
Spark gaps used in lightning arresters are unreliable, either failing to strike an arc when needed or failing to turn off afterwards, in the latter case due to material failure or contamination by dust or salt.
Finally, test results obtained from lightning current arresters are presented to demonstrate the performance of the test facility.
