This $0.70 Component SAVES your Circuit?! (Surge Protection) EB#59

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In this electronics basics episode, we will be having a closer look at overvoltage/surge protection components. Now a voltage surge only occurs rarely through lightning, inductive switching in your grid or an electrostatic discharge. But if they hit your electronics, they can immediately destroy them. But with the 3 shown components you can easily and for pretty cheap save your circuits. Let's get started!

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0:00 Overvoltage Problems!
1:25 Intro
2:08 Creating an Overvoltage Pulse for Testing
3:37 Test Circuit for the Experiment
4:04 Protection 1: TVS Diode
7:24 Protection 2: MOV
9:45 Protection 3: GDT
10:27 Comparison between all
10:47 Difference between Cheap/Expensive Surge Protection