What is Peterson coil?
Where it is used?

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What is Peterson coil? Where it is used?..

Answer / iamdon

Peterson coil is a highly inductive coil.

It is used as a ground fault neutralizer in RESONANCE
GROUNDING in case of fault/unbalance.

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What is Peterson coil? Where it is used?..

Answer / sunil

Peterson coils are used to in ungrounded 3-phase grounding systems to limit the arcing currents during ground faults. The coil was first developed by W. Petersen in 1916.

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