One thing I see I didn't make clear is that when a gas tube 'fires' it acts almost as a short circuit and will continue to conduct far below the voltage that was needed to trigger it. So for instance if a gas tube fired at 60V it might conduct all the way down to a source voltage of 10 or 15 volts.
This will protect the circuit from over voltages but you do need a circuit breaker so that "IF" the tube fires it doesn't continue to conduct massive amounts of current and overheat wiring or drain batteries. When the tube fires all that is left of the transient is a very short duration voltage 'spike' of much reduced amplitiude which can be dealt with by other means. -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
