William Sellar wrote: > Ken > > >>The surge protectors for the small loads are two 5 W 15 volt zener > diodes in parellel placed across the input wires to the device, but with > a .750 ma PTC 'auto fuse' in series with them on the positive input > side. > > When you say across the input?. Take a VHF radio for instance, do you > have the surge protection across the 12 volt supply, the antenna or both? > > Bill Reply; The surge protectors have a positive end and a negative end and are put in so that they go across the input wires only, that is the pos end is connected to pos boat power and the neg end is connected to neg boat power, near the device to be protected.
The best surge protection for the radio via its antenna is to unplug the antenna from the radio when you are going to be off the boat for any time. Nothing will be really effective there other than that. -Ken > _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
