been ignored by the big-money players in his own party. But even here he is steadily gaining: After raising $6,000 a day in the first quarter, he is now racking up $30,000 a day, much of it from small donors. That money could enable Huckabee to compete hard in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, where his relentless God-humping figures to score big at the polls. "We've got to do well in the early primaries," he says. "If we do, there'll be a total upheaval of the process."

When Huckabee talks like this, he sounds like what he is -- the Howard Dean of the Republican Party, an insurgent candidate who shot toward the top by appealing to a disaffected base. But Dean, who ended up stumbling out ofdisposed in an electrical parallel configuration with the transformer. During normal, steady state operations, the surge arrester has a very high resistance to ground, and therefore, nearly all of the current in the distribution conductor leading to the transformer passes through the transformer. However, when a surge in the form of a high current spike is detected by the arrestor, the resistance of the arrester drops precipitously to a level substantially lower than that of the transformer, and the surge arrester diverts the surge to ground. Once the surge has passed or dissipated, the arrester once again returns to the high resistance state to re-energize the transformer.
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