Bourns has introduced a series of gas discharge tubes for protecting equipment against high-voltage surges. The bidirectional GDT28H series has devices with breakdown voltages from 1 to 3.3kVdc, and ...

Varistor held the largest share of the varistor and GDT market in 2024. Based on product type, the varistor segment commands the largest share in the varistor and GDT market due to its broad ...

1. Bourns 2017 series of GDTs. When vertically mounted, the Model 2017 Series can support approximately twice the number of GDTs in the same board space compared with similar board space using surface ...

Bourns, Inc. has improved its next-generation gas discharge tube (GDT) line with a 3-electrode surface mount product family. Claiming breakthrough overvoltage surge arrestor performance, the new Model ...

With all the new, innovative types of components we see, it's interesting to note which “new” devices we routinely use are really updated versions of classics from the early days of electrical design.

A set of five gas discharge tubes are arranged such that when they are touched with a Tesla coil, their characteristically colored emission spectra are seen. The Tesla coil can burn your skin on ...

IN a recent letter, Asundi, Singh and Singh 1 have described effects observed with a so-called reversible discharge tube. The phenomena recorded appear to be most easily explained by assuming that the ...

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