Although various experimental Researches have been made on oxide film arresters, which are now extensively used in high voltage transmission circuits there are still much to be studied in order that the behaviour may be more clearly and defintely understood.
Dynamic characteristics of the O-F arrester are observed with a Braun tube, as such test is believed to be one of the most important for the arrester tests. Fe
2 O
3 arrester, air film arrester, glass beads arrester, carborundum arrester and autovalve arrester were tested in the similar way. So that clear judgement may be enabled by comparative study of them.
1. The oxid film arrester has decidedly an ample discharge capacity, but at the same time, there seems to occur some uncertainty of action due to the change of material and displacement within the arrester cell. To give the proper initial-charge instead of coating varnish, and then, to charge occasionally during its use seems to have certain significance.
2. Fe
2 O
3 was found to be unfit for arrester, and about Fe
3 O
4 certain expectation is described though no experiments could be performed on it.
3. Both the air film arrester and the glass pellet arrester may, it is considered, be made to operate fairly well, though the present experiments failed to prove of it.
4. The autovalve arrester, as practically used at present, seemed to have too low a limit of discharge capacity. In the present experiment the result was somewhat unsatisfactory due to a little inadequate proportioning of the test sample. It could however be noted that its deficiency of discharge capacity may be improved to some extent by the proper design of the arrester.
5. The carborundum arrester seems to be have pretty well, but under successive discharge with considerable current strength, the material seems to become decomposed, thus making the behaviour somewhat uncertain.
6. Any one of the arrerter as above mentioned which is dischargers along certain compounds, is liable to show uncertainty of action due to the change with time of the material, such as the indefiniteness of the discharge voltage or the practical short circuit of the arrester.
7. Tests made with Dufour's Oscillograph may show the behaviour under a single impulse. The above mentioned dynamic characteristics can show continuously the effect of a series of impulses, and it may therefore not be entirely out of place to report the results of observetion like this on various known and unknown sorts or lightning arresters.
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