XtheEdgeX
I've installed many of these, and they were installed to disperse the transient voltage through the grounding conductor to ground, or through the neutral conductor to ground.
No that is not what they are installed to do.
What you have is a basic misconception here. Voltage is not 'dispersed' to ground. It must be directed back to the source, the earth is not the source of the transient voltages.
Voltage does not 'want to' go to ground it 'wants' to go back to the source.
The source will be (most times) the first transformer on the supply side of the TVSS.
[This message has been edited by iwire (edited 12-31-2005).]
