"Gym Bob" writes:

Hell, put a zener diode into the gate of a Triac and use crowbar overvoltage
protection! When a high enough disturbance makes the zener conduct the triac
will short the whole thing right to ground/frame until the charge is gone
then release.

But slow acting.....

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