Safety with tradition - the history of arc fault testing

Test report and cover letter from 1970

When were the first arc fault tests carried out? Scheidt can look back on over 130 years of company history. But how old is the history of arc fault testing? Daniel Sokolic, responsible for design and development at Scheidt, has done some research: "If I had been asked some time ago, I would probably have estimated that the first arc fault tests in our stations were carried out sometime [...].

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