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SPD Anthology, Recorded surge occurrences, surveys and staged tests

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Citations Part 3 will give you a list of all paper citations, with annotations, for the category Recorded surge occurrences, surveys, and staged tests. This MSW file can be word-searched for authors and topics. Direct hyperlinks to the papers included in this Part 3 are shown in the display of the citations.

All papers Part 3 will give you the complete set of the Part 3 papers (Note: 96 pages, 5 MB in pdf, it might take a few minutes to download, depending on your Internet access setup). After downloading that file, you can speed up your search for a given paper by scrolling down in the "Thumbnails" palette, looking for the paper titles that appear in large bold thumbnails. Alternately, you can look in the "Bookmarks" palette for the abbreviated paper FILENAMES. These will appear without the section subheadings for the palette tree in + mode. By toggling from the + to the - mode on any given paper FILENAME, you will pop up the section headings and figures numbers for that paper.

To download separately the individual papers, listed below:

The pdf files of each individual paper (bit map, not searchable) are generally large, as indicated in the [xx MB] accompanying the filename abbreviation (which is the hyperlink) and the complete paper title in the following chronological list. Knowing which paper is of interest to you, as determined by your word search or a by seemingly interesting title, you can go directly to that one paper. To speed-up your search, each pdf file includes thumbnails and bookmarks palettes. The bookmarks show the section headings and the figure and table numbers corresponding to the figure captions or table titles included in the Text Part 3 file.

Typical home — Surge suppression in a typical home wiring system (1963) [1.0 MB]

Residential Surges — Surge voltages in residential power circuits (1967) [0.9 MB]

Res&Ind Surges — Surge voltages in residential and industrial power circuits (1970) [0.8 MB]

Secondary Transients — Transient overvoltages in secondary systems (1981) [1.1 MB]

Winning Rematch — Varistor versus environment: Winning the rematch (1986) [1.2 MB]

Annexes

Clock Statistics — A. Statistics on failure rates of clock motors (1964) [1.0 MB]

Discuss A&S — B. Discussion of Monitoring of computer installations for power line disturbances (1974) [1.0 MB]

Discuss O&B — C. Discussion of Measurement of voltage and current surges on the AC power line in computer and industrial environments (1985) [0.9 MB]

Discuss A&E&M — D. Discussion of Rural Alaska Electric Power Quality (1985) [0.9 MB]

Retrospective — E. From Mount Olympus to global atmospherics (2003) [html file with hyperlinks to reference files]

Created November 18, 2015, Updated September 26, 2016