Comments, with reply, on "Surface discharges on contaminated epoxy insulators" by D. Konig et al

The commenters suggest that the low average field strength to start partial-discharge (PD) activity on a hydrophobic insulator covered with condensed water and the time delay observed by the authors of the above-titled paper (ibid., vol.24, p.229-37, 1989) can be explained satisfactorily in terms of electrodynamic effects. The authors reply that the commenter´s approach is very interesting but may be limited to parameters other than those applied in their experiments.<>