On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 09:29:17PM +0100, Tony Duell wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 07:42:15PM +0100, Tony Duell wrote:
> > > Most consumer-grade spike proteectors seem to use somewhat underated
> > > MOVs. You can get higher energy ones from electronic component suppliers,
> > > and there's no reason not to fit these. They're less likely to fail in
> > > the future.
> >
> > What about using multiple ones in parallel? I have a lot of them that
>
> I think what would happen is that the one that broke down first (either
> because it had a lower volatage threshold, or because it was a bit
> faster) would take almost all the surge. So you'd not gain much by having
> them in parallel.
Yeah, that's what I thought; but I figured after the first one fries,
the next one is there to take the remaining part of the surge, etc.
But I guess if they fail closed-circuit, then the next one still won't
absorb much energy.
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