Students could look at the rapid changes to society that the invention of the internal combustion engine led to. The most obvious intervention was the car. How did the car change the lives of those who could afford one? How did Henry Ford's new manufacturing methods improve the speed of assembly and reduce the cost of production?
Arc Flash is the result of a rapid release of energy due to an arcing fault between a phase bus bar and another phase bus bar, neutral or a ground. During an arc fault the air is the conductor. Arc faults are generally limited to systems where the bus voltage is in excess of 120 volts.
What is an Arc Most of us are familiar with an arc. The dictionary describes an electric arc as âa luminous bridge formed in a gap between two electrodesâ. An Arc Flash occurs during a fault, or short circuit condition, which passes through this arc gap.