Many electronic appliances will be designed with metal oxide varistor(MOV). MOV is a advantaged non-linear varistor, it is designed to suppress high vo ltage and surge by many circuit designers. You might never connect the fire with MOV because MOV is the protection com ponent. Actually, if you have done enough test you will find the MOV will be ageing while excess power frequency voltage,surge attacking, or high ambient temp erature, etc. once it fails, it will be easy to become overheating, obvious ly, the fire accident will become ture. Pls check below description.
One device component has been designed to update safety of the traditional simple MOV. It is TFMOV short for Thermal Protected MOV. It is embedment wi th anti-fire material, has a fire-proof case. The built-in MOV designed wit h matched thermal fuse. The thermal fuse could be disconnect the overheatin g failure MOV from circuit, in this way, it could effectively protect the w hole equipment in safe.
Take power outlet/sockets for example, "Even worse: in some cases as an MO V is failing, it will heat up. The temperature can be so high that the comp onent ignites, possibly causing a fire in combustible material nearby.(sele ct from
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