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Old 18th September 2012 | 15:57
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Jan Olieslagers
 
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Some overvoltage protection is by means of a crowbar circuit which will deliberately trip the breaker.
Yes, but that is used on the "client" side, not on the supply side. One could have a crowbar after each "client" circuit breaker but it would be a bit of overkill. AFAIK crowbar circuits are only used to protect the avionics. For the other circuits, a short spike of overvoltage is not too bad, and continued overvoltage will trip the CB.

(but me too am sure G could improve on my words)

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