Coiled To Prevent A Spike

“With superconductors, you can build devices with amazing benefits.”

Lightning-fast trouble shooter

Designing a special superconducting cable and winding it into a coil creates a truly remarkable fault current limiting device – that acts just like a cable during normal operation, but “quenches” or limits short circuits within milliseconds on a high-voltage line.

Hair trigger action

In this device, a short circuit current triggers events that reduce both the magnitude of the fault current as well as the sudden temperature increase. However, in normal operation, it acts like any other cable, thanks to the remarkable properties of superconductors.

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