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echo: hs_modems
to: DAY BROWN
from: EUGEN WOIWOD
date: 1997-03-13 13:12:00
subject: U.S. Robotics Modems Die,

|*****************|Day Brown wrote:
While Eugen was busy watching Star Trek DS9 :), Day Brown wrote..
 DB> So, if you don't remember when you bought your surge sucker, throw it
 DB> out and get a new one... unless it's a "ZERO-SURGE", which don't use 
 DB> MOVs but uses inductive clamping.
 DB> If yours weighs a few pounds, then
 DB> it likely has some kind of heavy transformer, and the hysteresis, or 
 DB> magnetic field lag, performs the spike suppression.
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Actually, my Noma power bar I use here does weigh quite a bit, so it
probably does have as you said some kind of heavy transformer or magnetic
field lag.
Internet: Eugen_Woiwod@Mindlink.bc.ca
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