Chapter 5: Distributed Series Capacity

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Field	Value
Source	Theory and Calculation of Transient Electric Phenomena and Oscillations
Year	1909
Section ID	`theory-calculation-transient-electric-phenomena-oscillations-chapter-45`
Location	lines 23586-23947
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Word Count	1471
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CHAPTER V. DISTRIBUTED SERIES CAPACITY. 43. The capacity of a transmission line, cable, or high-poten- tial transformer coil is shunted capacity, that is, capacity from conductor to ground, or from conductor to return conductor, or shunting across a section of the conductor, as from turn to turn or layer to layer of a transformer coil. In some circuits, in addition to this shunted capacity, dis- tributed series capacity also exists, that is, the circuit is broken at frequent and regular intervals by gaps filled with a dielectric or insulator, as air, and the two faces of the conductor ends thus constitute a condenser in series with the circuit. Where the elements of the circuit are short enough so as to be represented, approximately, as conductor differentials, the circuit constitutes a circuit with distributed series capacity.

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Dielectricity / capacity

CHAPTER V. DISTRIBUTED SERIES CAPACITY. 43. The capacity of a transmission line, cable, or high-poten- tial transformer coil is shunted capacity, that is, capacity from conductor to ground, or from conductor to return conductor, or shunting across a section of the conductor, as from turn to turn or layer to lay ...

Lightning / surges

... e circuit. Where the elements of the circuit are short enough so as to be represented, approximately, as conductor differentials, the circuit constitutes a circuit with distributed series capacity. An illustration of such a circuit' is afforded by the so-called " multi-gap lightning arrester," as shown diagrammatically in Fig. 90, which consists of a large number of metal cylinders p, q . . . , with small spark gaps between the cylinders, connected between line L and ground G. This arrangement, Fig. 90, can be represented diagrammatically by Fig. 91. Ea ...

Radiation / light

... e circuit. Where the elements of the circuit are short enough so as to be represented, approximately, as conductor differentials, the circuit constitutes a circuit with distributed series capacity. An illustration of such a circuit' is afforded by the so-called " multi-gap lightning arrester," as shown diagrammatically in Fig. 90, which consists of a large number of metal cylinders p, q . . . , with small spark gaps between the cylinders, connected between line L and ground G. This arrangement, Fig. 90, can be represented diagrammatically by Fig. 91 ...

Complex quantities

... e number of metal cylinders p, q . . . , with small spark gaps between the cylinders, connected between line L and ground G. This arrangement, Fig. 90, can be represented diagrammatically by Fig. 91. Each cylinder has a capacity (70 against ground, a capacity C against the adja- cent cylinder, a resistance r, — usually very small, — and an inductance L. If such a series of n equal spark gaps is connected across a & constant supply voltage e0, each gap has a voltage e = — . If, Tl however, the supply voltage is alternating, the voltage does no ...

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