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Bud--

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In alt.engineering.electrical Leonard Caillouet wrote:
| wrote in message
| ...
| In alt.tv.tech.hdtv Franc Zabkar wrote:
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| The MOVs will act like conductors when they are clamping. The surge will
| take both paths ... the path through the MOVs, and the path going past the
| MOVs. In general, about 50% will go each way. That can vary at higher
| frequencies.
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| Why would you assume that 50% will go each way when you don't know the
| impedance of each direction? When conducting, or at failure, the MOV has a
| very low impedance.

There is a distinction between "go each way" and "what comes back" due to
the impedance. It will be about 50% that goes each way _because_ the power
itself does not (yet) know the impedance (at a distance), until it gets
there.

Another installment of Phil's Phantasy Physics using transmission line
theory.

Two sources directly contradict Phil.

Phil has provided no sources to support phantasy physics.

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