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In alt.tv.tech.hdtv bud-- wrote:
| wrote:
| 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.
| |
| | 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.

Not understanding it is your loss.

| Two sources directly contradict Phil.

What sources? Your truncated out of context quotes?

| Phil has provided no sources to support phantasy physics.

I don't care.

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