GE Baby Blue Lightning Arrester

By Christopher Sistrunk; posted August 4, 2004

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I found this baby blue lightning arrester in the dumpster today. It is a GE arrester. Any body seen one like this? It is marked:

(GE) logo

Thyrite Magnevalve

Distribution Arrester

Model 9L22B10

10KV

Made in USA

Fast Fact: Thyrite was invented by Karl B. McEachron in 1931 (US Pat 1,822,742). It is an insulator when low voltages are applied and a relatively low-resistance conductor when high voltages are applied.

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