Title :
Flashover to a resin bonded carbon fibre fishing rod from an overhead power line: doubt about the mechanism
Author_Institution :
Aston Univ., Sutton Coldfield, UK
Abstract :
The question is raised whether breakdown to a carbon fibre fishing rod held a few metres from an overhead 33 kV power line might occur as the result of the discharge of accumulated charge on the rod arising from a rectifying action. The discharge might provoke muscular contraction in the person holding the rod so that the rod was sharply brought into contact with the energised conductors. Or perhaps the discharge might trigger long distance breakdown through the air
Keywords :
power overhead lines; 33 kV; accumulated charge; flashover breakdown; long distance breakdown; muscular contraction; overhead power lines; rectifying action; resin bonded carbon fibre fishing rod;
Conference_Titel :
High Voltage Engineering, 1999. Eleventh International Symposium on (Conf. Publ. No. 467)
Conference_Location :
London
Print_ISBN :
0-85296-719-5
DOI :
10.1049/cp:19990660