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34 6 Vol.34 No.6 Feb.25, 2014 934 2014 2 25 Proceedings of the CSEE ©2014 Chin.Soc.for Elec.Eng. DOI 10.13334/j.0258-8013.pcsee.2014.06.015 0258-8013 (2014) 06-0934-07 TM 561 ( 430033) Modes of Drawn DC Vacuum Arcs and Characteristics of Arc Voltage Between Butt Contacts LIU Luhui, ZHUANG Jinwu (Naval University of Engineering, Wuhan 430033, Hubei Province, China) ABSTRACT: Hybrid DC vacuum circuit breaker (HDCVCB) based on forced commutation principle is effective for DC 0 current interruption. And its parameter design as well as interrupting capacity is closely related to the variations of arc modes. A demountable vacuum chamber was used to study the variation principle and the voltage characteristics of arcs, on a diameter of 45 mm CuCr50 butt contacts, under condition of  approximate dc currents up to 8kA. Experiment results show that the arcs stayed on the rupture point after the contact separation, before they gradually spread outward with the increasing of gap. When the current was under 5kA, the arc appeared as diffused and the noise of arc voltage was low; [1-4] when the current exceeded 5 kA, the arc also could cover the  [5-11] whole surface of the contact, but the arc ignition points mostly developed into anode bright spot, whereb