Lightning current withstand capacity and voltage limiting characteristics of TVS

Author

Yang, Liu ; Jianguo, Wang ; Wenjun, Zhou ; Bin, Ma

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. Eng., Wuhan Univ.

fYear

2006

fDate

1-4 Aug. 2006

Firstpage

314

Lastpage

319

Abstract

Lightning current withstand and voltage limiting characteristics of three kinds of transient voltage suppressor (TVS) are tested with 8/20 mus impulse current generator, and the relation between related voltage and impulse peak power is analyzed. The results show that the lightning current withstand capacity is decreasing with the increase of related voltage of TVS, and the impulse peak power can not increase the lightning current withstand capacity effectively. The limiting voltage will increase and critical voltage limiting factor will decrease with related voltage of TVS. There are decentralization characteristics on limiting voltage between different TVS of the same related voltage. The suggestion for usage and checking the insulation coordination of TVS is proposed in the paper

Keywords

lightning; TVS; impulse current generator; lightning current withstand capacity; transient voltage suppressor; voltage limiting characteristics; Breakdown voltage; Character generation; Impedance; Impulse testing; Lightning; Power generation; Production facilities; Surge protection; Transient analysis; Virtual colonoscopy; Lightning current; Limiting voltage; Transient voltage suppressor;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Environmental Electromagnetics, The 2006 4th Asia-Pacific Conference on

Conference_Location

Dalian

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0183-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CEEM.2006.257961

Filename

4027293