RE: Am I courting disaster?

["Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>]

Original poster: Thomas <tom-at-pwrcom-dot-com.au> 

Yikes! I take it that is meant to protect thetransformer from the HV side?

What is it- a MOV?

I was thinking more along the lines of protecting other devics connected to
the same LV (120/240V) circuit as the pig.

Tom.

Original poster: Yurtle Turtle <yurtle_t-at-yahoo-dot-com>

I think he was referring to a pig lightning arrestor,
like one of these:

http://www.hot-streamer-dot-com/adam/garage/gap_18kV_1.jpg

Quite huge and heavy.

Adam

--- Tesla list <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com> wrote:
  > Original poster: Thomas <tom-at-pwrcom-dot-com.au>
  >
  > Original poster: "Crow Leader"
  > <tesla-at-lists.symmetric-dot-net>
  >
  > -snip-
  >    How about just a spark gap? Lightning arrestors
  > are large and heavy,
  > even
  >    polymer ones. This sort of defeats the entire
  > goal you were shooting
  > for.
  > -----------------------------------
  >
  > Where'd you get that idea? One of these on each 120V
  > line to earth would do
  > the trick quite nicely:
  >
http://www.novaris-dot-com.au/products/earthing/specs/ec20.html
  >
  >