Why a gas-discharge tube is an important component for overvoltage protection. The history of spark gaps—predecessors to GDTs—includes a role in famous movies. How a new, compact, surface-mount GDT ...

1. Bourns 2017 series of GDTs. When vertically mounted, the Model 2017 Series can support approximately twice the number of GDTs in the same board space compared with similar board space using surface ...

A set of five gas discharge tubes are arranged such that when they are touched with a Tesla coil, their characteristically colored emission spectra are seen. The Tesla coil can burn your skin on ...

The GTCA26-900M-R05 is a Gas Discharge Tube with 5 kA impulse discharge current. This device features two electrodes, 6.00 mm diameter, 90 V DC sparkover voltage, and axial leaded type. It is intended ...

Bourns, Inc. has improved its next-generation gas discharge tube (GDT) line with a 3-electrode surface mount product family. Claiming breakthrough overvoltage surge arrestor performance, the new Model ...