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Re: [TCML] Idle musings about surge suppressors



Steve Ward wrote:
It might be worth considering what happens to these things when they DO have
to clamp a surge.  Is your construction material going to catch fire from
the heat generated by the MOV?

Steve


More to the point... after those MOVs have sucked up a few surges, the leakage current starts to increase, and they get hot, just sitting there.

Or, when it fails, do you have a fuse?


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