{"id":6754,"date":"2013-04-16T08:00:05","date_gmt":"2013-04-16T12:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/?p=6754"},"modified":"2023-04-08T17:58:28","modified_gmt":"2023-04-08T21:58:28","slug":"blown-up-surge-suppressor-module","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/2013\/04\/blown-up-surge-suppressor-module\/","title":{"rendered":"Blown up surge suppressor module"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This is a picture of a surge module taken from an LEA series type surge suppressor:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/LEA-surge-module.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"514\" src=\"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/LEA-surge-module-650x514.jpg\" alt=\"LEA MOV module destruction\" class=\"wp-image-6755\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/LEA-surge-module-650x514.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/LEA-surge-module-150x118.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/LEA-surge-module-300x237.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/LEA-surge-module-400x316.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/LEA-surge-module.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">LEA 600 volt MOV module<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Looks like it took a pretty significant power hit, enough to explode several MOVs.\u00a0 This site is at the end of a long transmission line that stretches across an entire county.\u00a0 Over the years, the station has made many complaints to the utility company about the quality of their power and the frequency of interruptions encountered at this transmitter site.\u00a0 Occasionally, something will happen.\u00a0 Often times it is the figurative shoulder shrug.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That is why we installed the surge suppressor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a picture of a surge module taken from an LEA series type surge suppressor: Looks like it took a pretty significant power hit, enough to explode several MOVs.\u00a0 This site is at the end of a long transmission line that stretches across an entire county.\u00a0 Over the years, the station has made many &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/2013\/04\/blown-up-surge-suppressor-module\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Blown up surge suppressor module<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[28],"class_list":["post-6754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tales-of-disaster","tag-fm-site"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6754"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11414,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6754\/revisions\/11414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}