Supplying power to equipment always imposes a risk of damaging it. This risk is apparent in every application whether it be an industrial or a home appliance. One of these harmful occurrences is something like lightning which introduces a potentially harmful voltage in the system. To reduce the risk of damage significantly an over-voltage protection device is needed. Devices which deal with this problem are common in any electrical equipment and this report deals with the construction and evaluation of one such unit. The device or equipment needing protection in this case is an industrial underwater robot built by Ocean Robotics. In order for this robot to operate safely it needs several protective measures where an over-voltage protection system is one of them. This system provides protection against over-voltages appearing on the main cable supplying the robot, where the input voltage ranges from 200 to 600 volts. As the desired voltage output range from the over-voltage system is 250 to 350 volts it must be able to handle significant power in some cases. Due to the restrictions on functionality given by the contractor a novel way of achieving the goals was tested. The completed prototype can only dissipate 70 watts of power which is far from the required 1500 watts which was specified in the sheet of requirements. However, this system could be used to protect equipment with lower requirements for power handling capability and with added time and effort it could possibly meet the requirements for this project as well.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:liu-114533 |
| Date | January 2014 |
| Creators | Kantzon, David, Lahti, Sebastian |
| Publisher | Linköpings universitet, Fysik och elektroteknik, Linköpings universitet, Tekniska högskolan, Linköpings universitet, Fysik och elektroteknik, Linköpings universitet, Tekniska högskolan |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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