Why a gas-discharge tube is an important component for overvoltage protection. The history of spark gaps—predecessors to GDTs—includes a role in famous movies. How a new, compact, surface-mount GDT ...

A set of five gas discharge tubes are arranged such that when they are touched with a Tesla coil, their characteristically colored emission spectra are seen. The Tesla coil can burn your skin on ...

1. Bourns 2017 series of GDTs. When vertically mounted, the Model 2017 Series can support approximately twice the number of GDTs in the same board space compared with similar board space using surface ...