Circuit breakers for boulder dam line

✍ Scribed by R.H.O.

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1935
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 52 KB
• Volume: 219
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/s0016-0032(35)92007-5

✦ Synopsis

PRINCE of the General Electric

Co. describes the theory, construction, and tests of the new type circuit breaker to be used on this 275 Kv. transmission line 270 miles long from Boulder Dam to Los Angeles.

To secure the maximum through power under fault conditions, the two parallel tower lines are united and sectionalized at two desert switching stations located respectively 90 miles from each end of the line.