A method for detecting the aging degree of a
zinc oxide lightning arrester
resistor disc includes the steps of averagely dividing the
resistor disc to be detected into at least five equal parts in the direction perpendicular to the current direction, respectively testing
dielectric properties of the
cut disc bodies obtained in the last step, obtaining the change rules of
dielectric constant imaginary parts epsilon'' changing according to the frequency f at different temperatures with the
dielectric constant imaginary part epsilon'' of each
cut disc body as a longitudinal coordinate and the frequency f as a transverse coordinate, calculating a loose
activation energy value corresponding to each loss peak according to an Arrhenius formula, judging the defects corresponding to the loss peaks to be
oxygen vacancy intrinsic defects and
zinc interstitial intrinsic defects respectively according to the loose
activation energy, comparing the
dielectric spectrum epsilon''-f of each
cut disc body at the temperature of 100 DEG C below zero with the
peak value of the corresponding loss peak to obtain the distribution condition of the concentration of the
oxygen vacancy intrinsic defects in the
resistor disc in the current direction and the distribution condition of the concentration of the
zinc interstitial intrinsic defects in the resistor disc in the current direction, and judging the aging degree of the resistor disc according to the change rate of the concentration of the zinc interstitial intrinsic defects. Through the method, the aging degree of the zinc
oxide lightning arrester resistor disc can be more accurately detected from the micro perspective.