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Get grounded: protecting electrical devices from lightning transients (1)

Posted: 18 Sep 2007  Print Version  Bookmark and Share Subscribe

Keywords: resistance  inductance  in-line protectors 

[Summary of tips] Lightning is one of the main paths for electrons to return from the atmosphere to the earth's surface. As in all electron flow, lightning is a form of current flow. Enormously high voltages between clouds and the ground cause breakdown of almost all insulator systems, leading to loud and brilliant arcing. Providing a flow path ......
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