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Electricity
A database referring to the existence of a flow of electric charge.
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protection scheme
Electrical equipment; Electricity
The coordinated arrangements for the protection of one or more elements of a power system. A protection scheme may compromise several protection systems.
protection system
Electrical equipment; Electricity
A combination of protection equipment designed to secure, under pre-determined conditions, usually abnormal, the disconnection of an element of a power system, or to give an alarm signal, or both.
protective device numbers, ANSI
Electrical equipment; Electricity
2 Time-delay, 21 Distance, 25 Synchronism-check, 27 Undervoltage, 30 Annunciator, 32 Directional power, 37 Undercurrent or underpower, 38 Bearing, 40 Field, 46 Reverse-phase, 47 Phase-sequence ...
real power
Electrical equipment; Electricity
The average value of the instantaneous product of volts and amps over a fixed period of time in an AC circuit.
recloser
Electrical equipment; Electricity
A switching device that rapidly recloses a power switch after it has been opened by an overload. In reclosing the power feed to the line, the device tests the circuit to determine if the problem is ...
recombination (battery)
Electrical equipment; Electricity
State in which the hydrogen and oxygen gasses normally formed within the battery cell during charging are recombined to form water.
