Abstract
Since 1987 the Upper Peninsula Power Company (UPPCO) has been experiencing a large number of lightning arrester failures on a portion of their distribution system in southern Marquette County, Michigan. It was in the area of the Navy's Extremely Low Frequency (ELF) antenna where the distribution system had been recently reconfigured so that the transformers were connected line-to-line in order to eliminate interference from the antenna. A study was done which determined that the system was susceptible to ferro resonance during single line faults under lightly loaded conditions and that the overvoltage's experienced could be causing the lightning arrester failures. This conclusion was further strengthened by a statistical study which compared the actual number of failures to an expected number of failures given the systems loading condition and fault rate. © 1993 IEEE
Recommended Citation
L. J. Bohmann et al., "Lightning Arrester Failure And Ferroresonance On A Distribution System," IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, vol. 29, no. 6, pp. 1189 - 1195, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Jan 1993.
The definitive version is available at https://doi.org/10.1109/28.259732
Department(s)
Electrical and Computer Engineering
International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)
1939-9367; 0093-9994
Document Type
Article - Journal
Document Version
Citation
File Type
text
Language(s)
English
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Publication Date
01 Jan 1993
