An economical and reliable DC circuit breaker for DC voltage > 3.5kV is not commercially available today. The lack of such a breaker has been inhibiting the development of DC power distribution in factories (especially processing plants with many variable speed motors); for microgrids (including on ships, oil platforms, and wind farms), and for multiterminal HVDC power transmission, as in the supergrid.
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Wednesday, August 1, 2012
I am about to receive initial funding for building a Ballistic Breaker prototype
I am determined to over-deliver on the MassCEC grant. I intend to do preliminary experiments with junk electrical equipment; my goal is to demonstrate prototype circuit breakers at several power levels, rather than the one single power level that I promised as a deliverable for the grant. This preliminary scoping can be done for very low cost and will help avoid any serious problems later with the design. I have a "skunkworks" location in mind...confidential for now.
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