It had flared though him like a voltage surge, burning in his brain like the heart of a nova.
This network provides a normally-high impedance which breaks down to a very low impedance in response to a momentary voltage surge electromagnetically induced in the shield.
Besides, a voltage surge wouldn't cause this.
Their burning voltage was under 200 V, but they needed optical priming by an incandescent 2-Watt lamp and a voltage surge in the 5-kV range for ignition.
An uninterrupted voltage increase that lasts more than a few seconds is usually called a "voltage surge" rather than a spike.
A voltage surge causes a spark that jumps from lead wire to lead wire across the gap left by the sawing process.
Mr. Busse said a voltage surge from the lightning alter the memory of a computer in the rocket.
But the logic board itself, in the words of one commission investigator, "went brain dead" from the initial voltage surge.
Daisy took that out with a voltage surge, burned somebody's blueskin fingers, I hope.
Apparently the sudden load drop when New York went dark sent a damaging voltage surge through my power line.
