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Protection, Maintenance and Testing of Capacitor Units

26.1 Protection and safety requirements

As discussed in the previous chapters, a capacitor may have to encounter many unfavourable service conditions when in operation. Most of them may lead to its direct overloading. Summing up all such conditions, a capacitor would need protection against the following:

26.1.1 Protection of shunt capacitors

1 Overvoltage (Section ...

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