I have some Altelicon glass tube lightning surge arresters. I am trying
to figure out how to test then to see if they are good. I have used an
ohm meter to compare a new one with an old one I suspected to be bad but
all reads the same. The replaceable glass tube measures open on bothe
old and new.
Mark,
I doubt the ohmeter will tell you anything. The gas tube is supposed to
measure open. It's job is to conduct only when lightning needs to be
shorted to ground instead of going through your equipment.
Put the arrestor inline between an antenna and a radio. If the radio
works as well
is. If it is not firing, the full applied voltage will be measured.
If it is shorted, very low or no voltage will be seen.
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Mark,
I doubt the ohmeter will tell you anything. The gas tube is supposed to
measure open. It's job is to conduct only when lightning needs to be
shorted to ground instead of going through your equipment.
Put the arrestor inline between
, May 20, 2008 4:07 PM
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Well the reason for concern is about a month ago I lost a 3 sector tower
to lightning or at least during a lightning storm. Everything with an
Ethernet port lost the Ethernet port as well as the three
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Well the reason for concern is about a month ago I lost a 3 sector tower
to lightning or at least during
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I have some Altelicon glass tube lightning surge arresters. I am trying
to figure out how to test
I guess the question would changing the glass tube be a fix all or can
the assembly go bad?
Mark McElvy
AccuBak Data Systems, Inc.
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