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Re: IIc keeps tripping the circuit breaker
- Subject: Re: IIc keeps tripping the circuit breaker
- From: "Tom Zuchowski" <tzuchow@attglobal.net>
- Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2002 15:31:21 -0400
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: Global Network Services - Remote Access Mail & News Services
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"Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote in message
news:20020806040409.15387.00002015@mb-dh.aol.com...
> An MOV's (Metal-Oxide Varistor's) typical failure mode is "open", not
> "shorted", so it is extremely unlikely that they would be intermittently
> shorting to produce the questioner's problem. (Not impossible, just
> extremely unlikely. ;-)
Uh, I suppose they turn into black smoking charcoal by opening up? I would
have supposed that was a result of the heat generated from a shorted
condition . . .
MOV's do get leaky over time and that is why they should be periodically
replaced.
Tom Zuchowski