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The service life of electrical switchgear is designed for a service life of 30 years. Meanwhile, the average age of switchgear is significantly higher than 40 years. The main causes for this are a low susceptibility to failure as well as the compulsion to reduce costs and optimize their use. Due to the high age of the electrical infrastructure, the...
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... question arose when the electronics will be disturbed or destroyed because of the use of electronics inside the toc-sensor. Figure 5 shows the used test setup which was used for testing of this use case. Two holes were drilled in a copper busbar to produce increased resistances which heated up very fast while the short circuit current flowed. ...
