Index

 

  • Ablation
  • Acceptance tests. See Testing
  • Advanced opening pole. See Circuit-breaker
  • Air-blast circuit-breaker. See Circuit-breaker
  • Air-break disconnector. See Disconnector
  • Ampacity of a HV cable. See Power system
  • Amplitude factor. See Transient Recovery Voltage (TRV)
  • Angle of impedance
  • Anode spots. See Vacuum arc
  • Anode-fall voltage. See Arc
  • Arc
    • anode-fall voltage
    • arc voltage
    • arcing time
    • cathode-fall voltage
    • electrode voltage drops
    • free-burning arc
    • plasma
    • secondary arc
    • SF6 arc
    • vacuum arc
  • Arc chutes. See Circuit-breaker
  • Arcing contacts. See Circuit-breaker
  • Arcing stress. See Circuit-breaker
  • Arcing time. See Making operation
  • Arc-Prolongation Circuit (APC). See Testing
  • Arc-voltage extinction peak. See Breaking operation
  • Arrester. See Surge arrester
  • Artificial line. See Testing
  • Asymmetrical-current peak factor. See Short-circuit current
  • Auto-reclosure. See Circuit-breaker
  • Auxiliary circuit-Breaker (AB). See Testing
  • Axial Magnetic Field (AMF) principle. See Vacuum circuit-breaker

 

  • Back-to-back configuration. See Capacitor banks
  • Bipolar AMF contact system. See Vacuum circuit-breaker
  • Break time. See Circuit-breaker
  • Breaking operation
    • arcing time
    • arc-voltage extinction peak
    • delayed (missing) current zero
    • fault-current breaking
    • fault-current breaking (interruption)
    • high-current interval
    • high-voltage interval
    • instant of contact separation
    • interaction interval
    • interruption of short-circuit current
    • mechanical opening time
    • multiple re-ignitions
    • multiple restrikes
    • opening ...

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