I want to thank all those who replied for their responses. We have a lot to think over.
To answer questions posed: The concept is to find an alternative to MOVs for surge protection. The attraction to the Transient Voltage Suppressors is their reliability and current clamping characteristics. General Semiconductor (now Vishay) does have a few "mains" rated, UL approved TVSs. They are rated to 120 VAC which doesn't make them useful for European voltages. The engineer I spoke with for Vishay informed me that they are contemplating UL approvals for their 400 and 440 TVSs up to those voltages. Based on the response, TVSs do not appear to be a popular method of transient protection on the power line. Thanks again, Michael Peters -----Original Message----- From: Peters, Michael Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2002 9:33 AM To: 'emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org' Subject: Transient Voltage Suppressor - Europe approvals? Greetings, Is anyone aware of Transient Voltage Suppressors (General Semiconductor calls them TransZorbs) with any European safety approvals (Semko, Demko, VDE, etc.,)? They would need to be rated for mains voltage. Thanks, Michael Peters ------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. Visit our web site at: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/emcs/pstc/ To cancel your subscription, send mail to: majord...@ieee.org with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Ron Pickard: emc-p...@hypercom.com Dave Heald: davehe...@attbi.com For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: ri...@ieee.org Jim Bacher: j.bac...@ieee.org All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://ieeepstc.mindcruiser.com/ Click on "browse" and then "emc-pstc mailing list" ------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. Visit our web site at: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/emcs/pstc/ To cancel your subscription, send mail to: majord...@ieee.org with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Ron Pickard: emc-p...@hypercom.com Dave Heald: davehe...@attbi.com For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: ri...@ieee.org Jim Bacher: j.bac...@ieee.org All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://ieeepstc.mindcruiser.com/ Click on "browse" and then "emc-pstc mailing list"
