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Arcing horns, a Common card
Arcing horns are projecting conductors used to protect insulators or switch hardware on high voltage electric power transmission systems from damage during flashover by providing a path through the air that is designed to flashover before the insulating surfaces do.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 54
- DEF
- 32
- Power
- 86
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 5,500
Power 86 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 30 % of WikiCards cards.
Arcing horns quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Arcing horns card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Arcing horns provide a path for flashover to occur that bypasses the surface of the ______ device.
Answer
protected. Arcing horns provide a path for flashover to occur that bypasses the surface of the protected device. From the Arcing horns article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Thomas Jefferson Jackson See. Thomas Jefferson Jackson See 58 · Arcing horns 54 · Frederick Scott Archer 51 · The Carlton Moscow 46 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Overvoltages on transmission lines, due to atmospheric electricity, lightning strikes, or electrical faults, can cause arcs across insulators that can damage them.
- Alternately, atmospheric conditions or transients that occur during switching can cause an arc to form in the breaking path of a switch during its operation.
- Arcing horns provide a path for flashover to occur that bypasses the surface of the protected device.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Arcing horns article was read about 5,500 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 54 and blocks with 32: each hit it takes is cut by 13 %.
How to get Arcing horns
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
More Science cards
Cards close in power
The cards just above and just below Arcing horns in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Papilio bianorCommon · Nature · ATK 53 DEF 33
- The Carlton MoscowCommon · Society · ATK 46 DEF 40
- Albert Bond LambertCommon · Society · ATK 55 DEF 31
- Frederick Scott ArcherCommon · Arts · ATK 51 DEF 35
- George Charles BeresfordCommon · Arts · ATK 47 DEF 39
- Philip K. ChapmanCommon · Science · ATK 60 DEF 26
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Arcing horns (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : CopperBlu, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
