Gerhard Fiedler wrote:
>> Again, assume that the wire coming in will have occasional short
>> spikes of 200V and figure out what that will do.
>
> When you say "short spikes", do you have an idea what "short" means?
> ns, us, ms range?

I would want it to survive at 200V for a few 100uS.  You can assume the
repition of these events are low so that the average power can be ignored,
but the instantaneous spike must not damage anything.


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