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Re: MOV lightning arrestor in place of safety gap...MCOV?



Original poster: "david baehr" <dfb25@xxxxxxxxxxx>


These 'Arrestors' sound like a good idea, but, do they have a limited life as with small MOVs , ? , they can only take so many hits ?
>From: "Tesla list" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
>To: tesla@xxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: MOV lightning arrestor in place of safety gap...MCOV?
>Date: Sun, 01 May 2005 11:11:53 -0600
>
>Original poster: "David Rieben" <drieben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>Hi Aaron,
>
>PS-Overvolting these arresters does NOT harm them as that's exactly
>what they're designed to do on the utility primary line. Once the
>line
>voltage
>drops back below their cutoff voltage, they act just like an open
>circuit
>once again.
>