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Hello,

I am an Alarm Technician among other things or stuff.

I was thinking about installing a simple MOV on the Transformer that feeds power to the Alarm Board. The industry standard is

16.5VAC 40VA plug in Transformer. 120 Volt Input.

Can anyone point to a specific MOV that would serve as a good lightning or surge protection if placed across the output terminals of the transformer??

I have seen a NTE524V15 used by others but looking at the spec's it seems to be a bit much for the application.

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Any thoughts out there??

Thanks for any insight.

Les

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ABLE1
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ABLE1 wrote: ===========

** Your secret is safe with me....

** NO - MOVs must go on the primary side to be any use.
** That is a primary side device.

** Better than nothing in my experience.

...... Phil

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Phil Allison

Thanks Phil and have a good day!!!

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ABLE1

If you do that, the lightning has its way with the primary and secondary windings of the transformer; why not use an MOV on the input terminals?

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whit3rd

Hi whit3rd,

If I did that then Safety would be in question. Now that I know that others were not doing something of betterment I decided to scrap the idea.

Better to purchase a plug in surge protector.

Les

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ABLE1

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