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Although the majority of the faults occurring in practice on a power system are unsymmetrical between the phases, the symmetrical fault is important because, although rarer, it is more severe. It is, moreover, a simpler condition to analyse, and therefore forms a suitable starting-point for a study of fault conditions. The short-circuit test, in which the three terminals of an unloaded synchronous generator are all short-circuited simultaneously, is a well-established method of checking its transient characteristics. The present section gives a full analysis of a sudden symmetrical short-circuit of an unloaded synchronous generator, and the solution is then extended in Section 8.3 so that it can be applied to a loaded machine [24].
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© 1975 B. Adkins and R. G. Harley
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Adkins, B., Harley, R.G. (1975). Synchronous Generator Short-Circuit and System Faults. In: The General Theory of Alternating Current Machines: Application to Practical Problems. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5802-9_8
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