1. Tubular arrester
The tubular arrester is actually a protective gap with high arc-extinguishing capability. It consists of two gaps in series. One gap is in the atmosphere, called the outer gap. Its task is to isolate the working voltage and prevent the gas-producing pipe from flowing through the pipe. The sub-unit was burned out by the power frequency leakage current;
The other one is installed in the air pipe, which is called the inner gap or arc extinguishing gap. The arc extinguishing ability of the tubular arrester is related to the size of the power frequency freewheeling flow. This is a protection gap type lightning arrester, which is mostly used for lightning protection on power supply lines.
2. Valve type arrester
The valve type arrester is composed of a spark gap and a valve resistor. The valve resistor is made of special silicon carbide. Chip resistors made of silicon carbide can effectively prevent lightning and high voltage and protect equipment.
When there is high lightning voltage, the spark gap is broken down, the resistance value of the valve resistor decreases, and the lightning current is introduced into the earth, which protects cables or electrical equipment from the harm of lightning current. Under normal circumstances, the spark gap will not be broken down, and the resistance value of the valve resistor is relatively high, which will not affect the normal communication of the communication line.
3. Zinc oxide arrester
Zinc oxide arrester is a kind of lightning protection equipment with good protection performance, light weight, pollution resistance and stable performance. It mainly uses the good nonlinear volt-ampere characteristics of zinc oxide to make the current flowing through the arrester at normal operating voltage extremely small (microampere or milliampere level);
When overvoltage occurs, the resistance drops sharply and the energy of the overvoltage is discharged to achieve a protective effect. The difference between this kind of arrester and traditional arrester is that it has no discharge gap and uses the nonlinear characteristics of zinc oxide to play the role of discharge and breaking.
Each type of lightning arrester has its own advantages and characteristics, and needs to be used in different environments to achieve good lightning protection effects.
