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Why is it called 110volt and 220volt? Sheesh...

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rdagger:

--- Quote from: MYX on October 26, 2006, 04:25:53 pm ---Yeah, 110, 111, whatever it takes.
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"220, 221, whatever it takes..."

Stingray:

--- Quote from: ChadTower on October 25, 2006, 08:04:14 am ---BTW, we have pole mounted transformers here.  They are normal.

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Still pretty common here too.

-S

shardian:
If I remember correctly from my Ciruits II days, power lines carry 14,000 volts.

ChadTower:

In a situation where the load is balanced properly, the equipment is completely functional, and nothing is jury rigged to compensate for overbuilding or missing lines/equipment that has failed and not been replaced.

And there aren't many lines like that where I live.  The structure is just too damn old.

Ed_McCarron:

--- Quote from: shardian on October 27, 2006, 11:27:14 am ---If I remember correctly from my Ciruits II days, power lines carry 14,000 volts.

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Depends.

Typical for our area, the top-most lines on the poles carry 13.2kv.

Chad's right, if depressing.  Get tangled up in that and it'll burn you to a cinder after it stops your

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