> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lew Hodgett
> The PIV rating protects the diode when you accidentally open the BATT
> switch.
>
> Sometimes it's enough, sometimes it isn't.
>
> You got lucky.
>
> To make it totally safe is simply not cost effective.
>
> Lew


REPLY
Perhaps its not totally protective, but a Zap-Stop is not that expensive and
it does protect against exactly that kind of problem.  Balmar has been using
them for years.

Arild


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