Proceedings of the KIEE Conference (대한전기학회:학술대회논문집)

The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers (대한전기학회)
권호 표지

Pspice Simulation Model of a ZnO Varistor for Lightning Surge Current

뇌서지 전류에 대한 산화아연바리스터의 Pspice 시뮬레이션 모델

  • Lee, B.H. (Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Inha University) ;
  • Kong, Y.H. (Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Inha University) ;
  • Lee, K.O. (Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Inha University) ;
  • Kang, S.M. (Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Inha University)
  • 이복희 (인하대학교 전기공학과) ;
  • 공영훈 (인하대학교 전기공학과) ;
  • 이경옥 (인하대학교 전기공학과) ;
  • 강성만 (인하대학교 전기공학과)
  • Published : 1998.07.20
Download PDF
⟨ Previous Next ⟩

Abstract

It is currently increasing to use surge protection devices in the protection of various electronic circuits from the transient overvoltages such as lightning strikes and switching surges. For this reason, the simulation methods, which can easily predict the protection performance of the devices, are strongly required in order to design the adequate surge protection circuits in lightning surge cut-off performance and economic aspects. This paper deals with ZnO varistor modeling method for designing a surge protection circuit and suggests the Pspice simulation model which takes the characteristic of varying clamping voltage into consideration during the time-to-crest, in range of $8{\sim}30{\mu}s$, of surge current applied to a ZnO varistor. The ZnO varistor Pspice simulation data introduced in this paper has produced almost same values as the measured results experimentally.

Keywords