bigclive
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An EXPENSIVE one this time!
🕑 Added 2023-09-13 01:59:54 +0000 UTCObviously I wasn't going to pay the full price of an item being gouged by contrived "regulatory requirements" - so I found one going cheaper on eBay.
I also have to admit that afterwards while investigating the smaller disk device it turns out it's probably a gas discharge tube surge device, which makes sense given its location in the circuit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wD7cXGr-ZYs
Comments
Jim Hewlett
Ah so not single shot then, hopefully they and we will continue.
Big Clive
If these reach their end of life state of heating up then they have to be replaced.
Jim Hewlett
I've not much experience of surge protection devices but it seems odd to me that it doesn't have a reset button or a replaceable fuse of some sort. But then I'm not an electrician. Presumably this is to protect against very rare events like lightning strikes and surges caused by solar flares, otherwise even the cheap versions seem to drop a large bill on the customer who, presumably hasn't caused the surge.
