Lightning, inductive load switching, or capacitor bank switching may cause transient overvoltage conditions in AC line voltage applications such as white goods and appliances. Metal Oxide Varistors ...

The widespread adaptation of VoIP gateways in homes and enterprise environments has resulted in increasingly stringent safety requirements for customer premise equipment (CPE). CPE for telecom must ...

Metal-oxide varistors (MOVs) are the most widely used device for protecting sensitive electronics from damaging overvoltage transients. To date, most consider MOVs to be sacrificial devices, expected ...

I love thunderstorms. For some reason, the sound of the heavy rain on the roof almost lulls me to sleep. The sound of distant thunder, caused by occasional flashes of lightning, is comforting to me in ...

Electrical overcurrent, ground faults, arc-flash, and transient overvoltage are major concerns for battery energy storage system (BESS) operators and owners. To protect the system and extend the life ...

Linear Technology has an overvoltage protection controller which operates from 9V to greater than 500V. The LTC4366 floating surge stopper uses an adjustable floating topology to enable very high ...