Morgan Manufacturing, which, I've heard, was the contract assembly company for 
ICE, is also selling some of ICE's product line.

http://www.morganmfg.us/ 

73, Jim N7US

-----Original Message-----


In my experience, they fail shorted, so it's pretty obvious.   Although the app 
notes for both the ICE and Array Solutions products say that they don't always 
fail shorted.

The design is based on this one, which Array Solutions used to sell, but the 
ICE owner died several years ago. The circuit is shown in the link below.  The 
great thing about this circuit is that the inductor continuously discharges 
static.

https://www.arraysolutions.com/as-303u

73, Jim K9YC

On 1/22/2018 10:51 AM, [email protected] wrote:
Until K9YC's post I was not aware of the Array Solutions lightning arrestor. 
They appear be a nice product. How do GDT's fail - open or closed? If open, how 
do you know that they need replacement?

John KK9A

K9YC wrote:

I strongly agree with Bob's advice, EXCEPT that I've gotten really tired of 
replacing Polyphasers on my high wire dipoles. I've recently switched to the 
arrestors that Array Solutions sells, both because I like the circuit better 
and because the gas discharge tubes are user replaceable.

The Polyphasers are feed-through types mounted to the entry panel. The Array 
Solutions are mounted in a big Hoffman box, for which W6GJB built some custom 
mounting brackets. It's mounted to the wall next to the plate with the 
Polyphasers, with two 2-in PVC conduit stubs going through the wall and holes 
drilled at the bottom of the enclosure for coax entry.

73, Jim K9YC

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