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SPD Anthology, Development of Standards - Reality Checks

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Citations Part 2 will give you a list of all paper citations, with annotations, for the subject category Development of standards - Reality checks. This MSW file can be word-searched for authors and topics. Direct hyperlinks to the papers included in this Part 2 are shown in the display of the citations.

All papers Part 2 will give you the complete set of the Part 2 papers (Note: 190 pages, 14 MB in pdf; it might take a few minutes to download, depending on your Internet access setup). After downloading that file, you can speed up your search for a given paper by scrolling down in the "Thumbnails" palette, looking for the paper titles that appear in large bold thumbnails. Alternately, you can look in the "Bookmarks" palette for the abbreviated paper FILENAMES. These will appear without the section subheadings for the palette tree in + mode. By toggling from the + to the - mode on any given paper FILENAME, you will pop up the section headings and figures numbers for that paper.

To download separately the individual papers, listed below:

The pdf files of each individual paper (bit map, not searchable) are generally large, as indicated in the [xx MB] accompanying the filename abbreviation (which is the hyperlink) and the complete paper title in the following chronological list. Knowing which paper is of interest to you, as determined by your word search or by a seemingly interesting title, you can go directly to that one paper. To speed-up your search, each pdf file includes thumbnails and bookmarks palettes. The bookmarks show the section headings and the figure/table numbers corresponding to the figure captions or table titles that are included in the Text Part 2 file.

TCL proposalTransient control levels: A proposal for insulation coordination in low-voltage systems (1976) [0.2 MB]
TCL PhilosophyTransient control level philosophy and Implementation Part 1: The reasoning behind the philosophy (1977) [0.5 MB]
Guideline EMCA guideline on surge voltages in AC power circuits rated up to 600 V (1979) [0.6 MB]
Guideline IEEEThe development of a guideline on surge voltages in low-voltage AC Power (1979) [0.8 MB]
Winning RematchVaristor versus environment: Winning the rematch (1986) [1.2 MB]
Real WavesReal, realistic ring waves for surge testing (1991) [0.6 MB]
IncompatibilityIncompatibility between the 100/1300 surge test and varistor failure rates (1991) [0.6 MB]
MOV - VDETesting varistors against the VDE 0160 standard (1991) [0.6 MB]
TransnationalStandards: Transnational Aspects (1991) [0.4 MB]
ValidatingValidating surge test standards by field experience: High-energy tests and varistor performance (1992) [0.7 MB]
Reality CheckApplying reality checks to standards on the surge environment (1996) [0.7 MB]
Lamp failureUsing incandescent lamp failure levels for assessment of the surge environment (1997) [0.6 MB]
More begets LessDriving high surge currents into long cables: More begets less (1997) [1.0 MB]
Develop GuideDeveloping a consumer-oriented guide on surge protection (1997) [1.0 MB]
Neutral EarthingThe effect of neutral earthing practices on lightning current dispersion in a low-voltage installation (1998) [1.1 MB]
DilemmaThe dilemma of surge protection vs. overvoltage scenarios: Implications for low-voltage SPDs (1998) [0.6 MB]
GaloreThe fallacy of monitoring surge voltages: SPDs and PCs Galore ! (1999) [0.8 MB]
DispersionOn the dispersion of lightning current after a direct flash to a building (2000) [1.6 MB]
PQ IEC StandardA new IEC standard on the measurement of power quality parameters (2000) [0.4 MB]
Trilogy UpdateThe Trilogy update of IEEE C62.41 (2000) [0.6 MB]
Role of SPDsThe role and stress of surge-protective devices in sharing lightning current (2002) [0.6 MB]
New IEEE StdsNew IEEE standards foster next-generation system compatibility (2002) [0.7 MB]
Created November 13, 2015, Updated September 26, 2016