Aside from all the regulatory issues of leakage current and nasty failure modes of MOVs. What methods have been used to detect a failed transient suppression device in equipment? Or, is there some expectation the devices will survive a warranty period and that alone is good enough?
Seems like any detection schemes would also have a series of regulatory issues and be a significant cost adder to the product. Doug Douglas E Powell Independent Compliance Consultant http://www.linkedin.com/in/dougp01 http://www.linkedin.com/in/dougp01 - ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to <[email protected]> All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieee-pses.org/emc-pstc.html Attachments are not permitted but the IEEE PSES Online Communities site at http://product-compliance.oc.ieee.org/ can be used for graphics (in well-used formats), large files, etc. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/request/user-guide.html List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas <[email protected]> Mike Cantwell <[email protected]> For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher: <[email protected]> David Heald: <[email protected]>
