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Development of a Deterioration Diagnosis Device for Arresters on Shinkansen Feeding Circuits

Last updated on 25 March 2013 1:04

Two methods currently exist to evaluate degradations in arresters in Shinkansen substations. One method uses a surge current counter device to count the number of strokes of lightning. However, surge current counter devices sometimes pick up small switching surge of changeover switches, which are not deterioration to the arrester. The...

Author(s): Hiroki TANAKA;Hiroaki MORIMOTO;Masataka AKAGI;Tsurugi YOSHII;Tetsuo UZUKA;Kohji AJIKI

Organisation(s): Railway Technical Research Institute ;

2013

Japan

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