Re: NST protection

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Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>

Hi Justin,

I don't quite know what you mean by "lossy caps".  In general, protection
circuits have to dump energy as heat.  That heat can be in the 50 to 100
watt range which would quickly destroy any cap.  But, all that depends on
many things...

Cheers,

	Terry

At 01:34 AM 8/17/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>I was wondering why the idea for using lossy caps for NST protection. I'm not 
>defending it or anything. I'm sure many of you guys know way more than I do 
>about this stuff. I was just curious about the principles that would not 
>allow this to work. 
>                                    Justin
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