[TowerTalk] homebrew low voltage surge suppressors?

[Dubovsky, George]

I measured one of their ICE 303 units years ago, and the inductor was 44
uH.

73,

geo - n4ua

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> bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of K4SAV
> Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2006 4:15 PM
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> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] homebrew low voltage surge suppressors?
> 
> ..."Their use of a coil across the line is also questionable."...
> 
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> Now that you mention it, I may as well give you the answer.
> 
> I don't know the value of the inductor they use, but a little circuit
> analysis can ballpark the value.  They claim these suppressors operate
> to 1.5 MHz, so in order to keep the SWR under 1.2 at 1.5 MHz, the
> inductor has to be at least 30 uH.  When you take a 30 uH inductor and
> place it in SPICE and drive it with a typical 8/20 us lightning
waveform
> at 20,000 amps, the voltage across the inductor goes to about 74,000
> volts. So the inductor isn't doing much by itself.

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