The behavior of long insulator strings under switching and lightning impulses and AC voltage is studied up to 750 kV. With increasing short-circuit currents, it is necessary to fix the spark between specially designed electrodes in order to preserve other metallic pieces from the thermal effects of the arc.
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Hutzler et al. (1979) studied this question.
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