joe smith | What technology did the dead modem's input use? @joesmith-je3tq | Uploaded July 2018 | Updated October 2024, 4 days ago.
I was fairly confident the cable modem's input shown in the last video was protected by a gas discharge tube but a viewer commented they were certain the input protection device was a TVS.

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