Testing of outdoor insulators in a fog chamber is universally used. Many fa
ctors affect the generation of fog. Fog parameters such as the pressure of
the compressed air and the water now rate feeding the nozzles to form the f
og, as well as the size and the speed of the fog droplets impinging on the
surface of the insulators, play a major role in the outcome of electrical p
erformance tests. In order to be able to compare test results from differen
t laboratories, the conditions of fog generation should be defined unambigu
ously and clearly. In the present paper relationships between air pressure,
water now rate and air speed which are related to the distribution and the
speed of the fog droplets, are determined as a function of distance from t
he IEEE-IEC standard nozzles forming the fog. The distribution of different
fog droplet sizes is measured. The influence of the fog parameters on the
aging characteristics of surface resistance, surface roughness, leakage cur
rent and surface hydrophobicity of high temperature vulcanized (HTV) silico
ne rubber are presented.