Patent ID: 8964346
Filing Date: 2015-02-24
Classification: H01C

Abstract:
1. A surge arrester comprising: a housing with protection against electric shock; a voltage-limiting active part, which is arranged in the housing and has a stack of varistor elements formed as a varistor column; and an electrical connection, which is arranged outside the housing and electrically conductively connected to the varistor column for connecting a high-voltage installation, wherein the electrically conductive connection between the varistor column and the electrical connection is in the form of a cable conductor of a flexible high-voltage cable, the high-voltage cable having a first section arranged in the interior of the housing and formed without a shield, and a second section arranged outside the housing, having cable insulation and an electrically conductive shield that surrounds the cable conductor, and is electrically conductively connectable to the housing and to an encapsulation with protection against electric shock of the high-voltage installation, and wherein the housing accommodates an apparatus for damping oscillations which are introduced into the varistor column from the outside.