Stan, Clearly you only considered a few of the semi-cons. Others just stop working, while still others pass anything above the manufacturer design max. Your lack of desire to learn indicates a possible reason why you don't seem to understand ... At my age, I forget some ... What is that old adage about leading a horse to water, but you can't make him read? or something like that! Bob De Witt, rdew@el.nec.com The views expressed herein are my own, and are not attributable to any other source, be it employer, friend or foe.
From StanSquncr@aol.com Fri Mar 20 14:43:46 1998 From: StanSquncr <StanSquncr@aol.com> Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 16:50:55 EST To: rdew@el.nec.com, spectre@anthrax.net, cypherpunks@toad.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: UPSs Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit
In a message dated 98-03-20 16:04:24 EST, rdew@el.nec.com writes:
<< If your surge protector is a semi-conductor, it probably will be self-limiting. That is, it will reach a maximum block, and pass whatever is above that. >>
Yes, but what you fail to point out, is the reason it will pass everything, it will have been blown (shorted, most likely).
So, because you failed to point this out, I figure the rest of your response isn't worth responding to.
Stan