6. Comparing and combining protection components
6.1 Comparison
Table 3 compares the most common protection components, highlighting their main characteristics. Figure 30 completes this comparison from the point of view of protection voltage and flow capacity (assuming an overload of 1 ms duration), and highlights, in particular, their complementarity.
The notion of flow capacity (or power) better corresponds to the way a spark gap operates, while that of energy absorption characterizes non-linear components. However, for the sake of convenience,...
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Comparing and combining protection components
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