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What is a SILISTOR ?
MK14:
--- Quote from: RoGeorge on October 30, 2018, 06:23:10 pm ---Not joking, just mislead by the capital M, sorry.
Found some datasheet.
P.S. I missed a few posts, including the one with your link to the datasheet. :palm:
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It is all too easy to miss things in threads, no worries.
You had me worried, because MOVs often do deal with extremely high PEAK currents, so I could have easily been mixed up about it.
MK14:
From having a quick partial read on a varistor application note.
I'm wondering if they mean, 100V (limit) when a current of 20mA flows.
Hence why it says 100V 20mA.
So a more modern varistor, would probably be 100V at 1mA, and may just say 100V, with the datasheet going into the proper details.
The app note is here:
https://www.littelfuse.com/~/media/electronics_technical/application_notes/varistors/littelfuse_varistors_basic_properties_terminology_and_theory_application_note.pdf
--- Quote ---The varistor voltage, VN, is defined as the voltage across a
varistor at the point on its V-I characteristic where the transition
is complete from the low-level linear region to the highly
nonlinear region. For standard measurement purposes, it is
arbitrarily defined as the voltage at a current of 1mA.
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