[114784] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Why choose 120 volts?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Janet Plato)
Tue May 26 17:24:31 2009
In-Reply-To: <074b01c9de43$1dae5830$590b0890$@net>
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