Build surge protector/supressor

[soulscore]

i want to build a surge protector one with about 500 joules of protection but i have never build anything as far as electronics. i have repair several monitors and a couple motherboards i looked online and didnt see anything that i could use to teach me how to build the inside i saw a few webpages on how to make the boxes and such but nothing on the board and internal parts. also there is no kit you can buy to build

reasons i want to build one

to learn
i need one
i think it would be fun
repairable by me
easily dissembled when failure

[Pyr0Beast]

Re: Build surge protector/supressor

The simplest surge protector I've stumbled across was 3 naked copper wires (solid core), separated in air by the thickness of a paper

Also protected by a fuse.

When lightning strikes, the air conducts and often melts those wires together (also blows the automatic fuses)
1mm of air is good for about 300V

[larrymoencurly]

Re: Build surge protector/supressor

You should be able to make a surge protector without a circuit board, by attaching MOVs between hot & ground, neutral & ground, and hot & neutral, after a fuse, of course (in case a MOV or other crowbar shorts), and then wire that to a line filter. Or you could take a power strip that includes a circuit breaker and attach MOVs similarly, but there probably won't be any room for a line filter.

http://dev.emcelettronica.com/ac-pow...ircuit-breaker

[soulscore]

Re: Build surge protector/supressor

Sorry i meant 5000 joules also about the long reply was on vacation