Doble Engineering Company

David Train

George A Cavigelli

Philip A Von Guggenberg

A group of bushings receives voltage in parallel to produce a current output from each bushing. Cumulatively combining the current outputs from the bushings vectorially furnishes a vector sum bushing current. Reference voltage devices also produce reference current outputs. Cumulatively combining the reference current outputs vectorially provides a vector sum reference current, and differentially vectorially combining the vector sum reference current with the vector sum bushing current delayed by 90&deg; provides a difference signal representative of a bushing condition. As an alternative to the reference voltage devices, a second group of bushings may be used. In this case, a delay of 90&deg; is not required. The invention may also be used to monitor the condition of other capacitive devices, for example, high voltage current transformers.

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