(10) SIEMENS GAS DISCHARGE TUBEs GDTs / ISOLATED LOOP CIRCUIT PROTECTORs / LIGHTNING ARRESTORs / SPIKE SUPPRESSORs / SURGE ARRESTORs / TRANSIENT SUPPRESSORs / CORONA DISCHARGE SUPPRESSORs / SPARK ARRESTORs, 230-96-0 New old stock (NOS) 3-lead #230-96-0 Siemens gas discharge tubes (GDTs) (Isolated Loop Circuit Protectors) / surge arrestors / lightning arrestors / spike suppressors / transient suppressors / corona discharge suppressors / electric spark suppressors. GDTs are also called surge protectors / surge suppressors, surge limiters, and transient arrestors. To quote ELECTRONIC DESIGN magazine ("Use GDTs For Surge Protection in Broadband Digital Comm," 12/11/08), "Gas discharge tubes (GDTs) have evolved to a level of providing very reliable and effective surge protection in telecommunications systems and equipment, safeguarding against lighning and power-fault conditions. Due to their robust nature and superior electrical characteristics, GDTs have already become the preferred replacement for carbon blocks in traditional telephone-service applications. Because of their ultra-low capacitance plus low insertion and return loss performance, they're also replacing solid-state semiconductor solutions in broadband-communication designs. ... GDTs protect against overvoltages caused by lightning, power switching, and fault conditions." While this typically great Electronic Design article was devoted to broadband digital communications, you should provide this same outstanding GDT protection for every piece of electronic equipment / electrical equipment you value which is connected to any power line, phone line, cable or antenna. Virtually no commercially-available transient-suppressed power strips have built-in gas discharge tube lightning arrestors although nearby lightning strikes and power system/equipment problems are major killers of computers, computer peripherals, radios, televisions and other electronic equipment and electrical equipment. These GDTs are about 1/2" long and 1/4" dia. The center lead is connected to Earth Ground, one end lead is connected to the Hot side lead and the other end lead is connected to the Neutral lead. Under normal operations, GDTs have virtually open-circuit resistance, so power insertion loss is virtually zero. When a high-voltage transient or electrical fault occurs, GDTs contain a gas which is ionized by high voltages, which switches the lightning arrestor's resistance to near short circuit to divert the high transient currents safely to Earth ground and away from your invaluable equipment circuitry. When installed in conjunction with MOVs (we also sell), fuses / circuit breakers, and high-voltage bypass capacitors typically found in most very high quality power strips with built-in transient suppression, your protection against power line, phone line, cable and antenna line-induced electrical pulses from lightning, power company equipment failures, switching high-power equipment, solar storm solar flares, electromagnetic pulse (EMP), and corona discharges is optimized. Solar storm-caused solar flares can induce high voltage surges which can wipe out virtually all unprotected electronics over vast areas. Electromagnetic pulses result from war and terrorism - one air E-Bomb can wipe out all unprotected electronics coast-to-coast. In times of terrorism and war, your radio, TV and computer can mean the difference between life and death! Again, every piece of important electrical or electronic equipment plugged into a power outlet, power strip, phone line, cable TV or antenna line needs to be protected with GDTs no matter how else protected. Even if the connected equipment or power strip is switched off, a line pulse of only a few 1,000 volts can arc across the switch contacts to destroy the electronics. These #230-96-0 Siemens gas discharge tubes are also ideal for protecting antenna arrays, single antennas and other electrical components / electronic components which are also susceptible to nearby lightning strikes, power company power transients, switching high power equipment, solar flares, EMP, and corona discharges. DO YOU WANT THIS SAME ITEM IN A GREATER QUANTITY AND AT CHEAPER PER-UNIT PRICE AND PER-UNIT S/H COSTS THAN THIS ITEM? IF INTERESTED IN BUYING MORE OF THESE, PLEASE EMAIL US. Consumertronics.net welcomes you! Thank you very much for considering our Off-The-Shelf Items. By part #, we have 1,000s of ICs (1,000,000 ICs by quantity), Transistors, Rectifiers, Inductors, Capacitors, Resistors, Crystals, Sensors, Displays, Switches, Relays, Cables, Connectors, and other small Electronic Parts, plus Electronic Test Equipment and other hi-tech devices, plus special materials (many sold on our eBay pages) - all from our techzonics.com Online Super Store (ABQ Techzonics, Albuquerque, NM). The electrical or electronic part type described herein is a popular type used in many devices, including the electronic designs of Consumertronics (consumertronics.net, known for its high-tech books and manuals), and Lone Star Consulting, Inc.(lonestarconsultinginc.com, best known for its mind control and electronic attack detection and countermeasure devices). Please visit our many other eBay offers. Should we not now have listed on eBay the electronics or other high-tech Items you need, please email us, and if we have it to sell, we will try to list it on eBay. 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