Surge Protectors Series (overrated) vs Parallel

[paulengr]

Yes, but UL 1699 is in public domains, which specify type of arcs to extinguish. If arcs defined here are found useless, the test standard is useless, rather than manufacturers.

If intellectual property was in public domains R&D would have no budgets, and GE would tell everybody how to pass UL 1699 without ground fault functions.

Really? All other protective functions (instantaneous and thermal overloads, GFCI, many others) are well defined. This would imply circuit breakers and fuses would never be developed. Only AFCI is entirely proprietary.

There is a huge corporate headquarters that dominates the Raleigh skyline and they have one of the two main concert venues named after them, Red Hat. Based almost entirely on open source software. The major independent protective relay manufacturers (SEL, Basler) give highly detailed engineering data on their trip functions. Both have huge R&D labs and have been regularly advancing state of the art in protective engineering.

So your argument is so preposterous it is laughable at best but looks like manufacturer trolling by second rate hacks that would be embarrassed were their algorithms to be public.

 

[ramsy]

I can agree to disagree, and would prefer Bosoeker3's ScrumpyJack, to drinking your poison.

 

[Little Bill]

I think the discussion has gone to far out of bounds to bring back.