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What is an Arcing Horn?
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As shown in figure above, Arcing Horn isnormally paired on
either side of the Insulator, one connected to the high voltage
side of Insulator and the other to ground.
Working Principle of Arcing Horn:
Arcing Horn bypasses the high voltage across the Insulator
MY FAVORITE BOOKS using air as a conductive medium between the Horns. The
small gap between the horns ensures that the air between them
breaks down resulting in a flashover and conducts the voltage
surge rather than cause damage to the insulator.
Arcing Horn basically form a Spark Gap across the Insulator
with a lower breakdown voltage than the air path along the
insulator surface, so an overvoltage will cause the air to break
down and the arc to form between the arcing horns, diverting it
away from the surface of the insulator. An arc between the
Horns is more tolerable for the equipment because it provides
more time for the fault to be detected and the arc to be safely
cleared by remote Circuit Breakers.
At medium voltages, one of the two Horns may be omitted as
the Horn to Horn gap can otherwise be small enough to be
bridged by a bird.
The presence of the arcing horn necessarily disturbs the normal
electric field distribution across the insulator due to their small
but significant capacitance. More importantly, a flashover across
arcing horn produces an earth fault resulting in a circuit outage
until the fault is cleared by circuit breaker operation. For this
reason, nonlinear resistors known as varistors can replace
arcing horns at critical locations.
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