> -----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 _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
