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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 29, 1979
Filed:
Jan. 10, 1977
Ronald T Harrold, Murrysville, PA (US);
Emil M Fort, Murrysville, PA (US);
Herbert E Pietsch, Monroeville, PA (US);
Westinghouse Electric Corp., Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Abstract
A method is provided for detecting the presence of arcing faults in the stator windings of large dynamoelectric machines, such as turbine generators. Arcing faults, such as broken strands in a winding conductor with continued arcing, give rise to high frequency currents which flow in the neutral lead of the generator winding. The presence of the arcing fault can thus be detected by observing the high frequency neutral currents and monitoring them for the presence of the characteristic frequency distribution resulting from the resonance characteristics of the current path.