RE: [TCML] Idle musings about surge suppressors

["Reverend Fuzzy" <cmayeux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The perfboard, I believe would only scorch, and the heat-shrink tubing would vaporize, but I'm sure you could replace the
heat-shrink tubing with an asbestos sleeve, if you're not averse to lung cancer. :)


> -----Original Message-----
> From: tesla-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:tesla-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Steve Ward
> Sent: March 15, 2010 1:45 PM
> To: Tesla Coil Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [TCML] Idle musings about surge suppressors
> 
> 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
> 
> On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Reverend Fuzzy
> <cmayeux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> 
> > Most of them are just that... MOV's  When I found that out, I built my own
> > with 3 heavy-duty MOV's on a piece of perfboard, then
> > covered the whole board in a chunk of heat-shrink tubing... wound up with a
> > module as big around as a small matchbox, with one red,
> > one black, and one green wire coming out of the end... total cost, under
> > $10.
> > (black to phase A, red to phase B, green to neutral/ground bus bar.)

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