RE: High Voltage but Low Current fuses...Why ? ? ?

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Original poster: "Mccauley, Daniel H by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <daniel.h.mccauley-at-lmco-dot-com>




Then you only need a spark gap.  A fuse typically doesn't protect
against transient voltage spikes
as you are describing below.  A simple spark gap will do the job.

The Captain

 > an example I can think of needing hi volt fusing would be in
 > an attempt to
 > protect the secondary of the transformer from hi volt peaks
 > from missed gap
 > fires, resonate rise on the secodary side...  just to name
 > some...  sometimes MOVs arent quite enuf to protect the
 > secondary side
 > circuits...
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