Power supplies

Power supplies

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Electrical equipment; Power supplies

A disruptive electrical discharge around or over the surface of a solid or liquid insulator.

A gaseous body of ions and electrons of sufficiently low density that considerable charge separation is possible. Because of the mobility of charge, a plasma is normally neutral and free of electric ...

insulator

Electrical equipment; Power supplies

A material of such low electrical conductivity that the flow of current through it can usually be neglected.

wire

Electrical equipment; Power supplies

A metallic conductor of round, square, or rectangular cross-section that can be either bare or insulated.

dielectric

Electrical equipment; Power supplies

A non-conducting material.

corona

Electrical equipment; Power supplies

A non-self-sustaining discharge (sometimes visible) due to ionization of the gas surrounding a conductor around which exists a voltage gradient exceeding a certain critical value for a gaseous ...