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Re: Why choose 120 volts?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Janet Plato)
Tue May 26 17:24:31 2009

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Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 16:24:01 -0500
From: Janet Plato <techgrrl@gmail.com>
To: Aaron Wendel <aaron@wholesaleinternet.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

>=A0Last time I looked at my bill I was being billed by the kWh, not amp an=
d 240v at half the amps is still the same wattage.

Losses are I^2*R, so double the voltage, half the current and
experience a quarter of the loss...

Janet Plato


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