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Improving Breakdown Voltage Characteristics of GDAs using Trigger Voltage

  • Lee, Sei-Hyun (Dept. of Electrical Measurement and Control, Korea Polytechnic College IV)
  • Received : 2010.05.07
  • Accepted : 2010.07.21
  • Published : 2010.11.01
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Abstract

This paper investigates a method to improve the breakdown voltage characteristics of a gas discharge arrester (GDA) for a surge suppressor. The middle electrode is inserted between two terminal electrodes. Voltage application to the electrode synchronized and amplified by the impulse voltage decreases spark overvoltage from 45% to 57.6%. The decrease is caused by higher voltage slope, as opposed to applied impulse voltage (by 5.5 to 6.2 times). In addition, the GDA model using ATP-Draw was used to analyze the operation characteristics of GDAs. The test and simulation results agree to within 2% when the trigger source was used.

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