Posted on 05/12/2017 10:11:28 AM PDT by RArtfulogerDodger
MOV’s. Metal oxide validators.
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Those are the “circuit breakers” you find in cheap surge suppressors/lightning suppressors right? The powdered metal just melts and disconnects the circuit...
Y2K could have been a disaster. We had to fix a lot of shit before. It was an untold success story in technology.
Got eet
Agreed. But by the story being untold, while the media scare continued right up to 1 Jan, the public was left with the perception that “the experts” like to scream a lot over nothing.
And I agree with that. the media created the expectation that we would all suffer, the world would collapse. Y2k perception after was it was a big nothing. false alarm. The amount of work that went into making a big nothing when the clock hit midnight wasn’t even recognized.
Little ones I suppose do that. But the ones I am referring to take 6,000 volts repeatedly and clamp it off to ground. The ones we use on navy ships above the waterline for EMP hardening.
So it’s more or less like the “lightning arrestor” I have on my main and sub panel then...
I worked for a major international retailer at the time and I know how much money and time we spent making sure nothing bad happened to our multiple computer systems. It was a tremendous effort.
I’d like to say there is a similar effort going on to protect US systems from an EMP attack or Carrington event, but I don’t see it.
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