Comments, with reply, on "Surface discharges on contaminated epoxy insulators" by D. Konig et al

The commenters suggest that the low average field strength to start partial-discharge (PD) activity on a hydrophobic insulator covered with condensed water and the time delay observed by the authors of the above-titled paper (ibid., vol.24, p.229-37, 1989) can be explained satisfactorily in terms of electrodynamic effects. The authors reply that the commenter's approach is very interesting but may be limited to parameters other than those applied in their experiments.<
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