>
> A similar thing happened with garden variety 130 v rated MOV's....
> too many house fires. Modern MOV's for 120/240 v use, will have a 3rd lead
> sticking out [offset to one side]
> and an internal fuse built into em.
>
>
I don't understand how this can be a useful device. I thought that MOVs
were supposed to draw lots of current, instead of letting it got
elsewhere causing damage to more expensive and sensitive electronics. I
had always thought of MOVs as sort of "sacrificial" devices, intended to
blow up under the worst power surges, and mounted inside a metal
cabinet so that when they do blow up nothing else is damaged. I would
never mount an MOV where it could set fire to something else.
DE N6KB
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