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Re: Why choose 120 volts?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (david raistrick)
Wed May 27 17:37:40 2009

Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 17:37:15 -0400 (EDT)
From: david raistrick <drais@icantclick.org>
To: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>
In-Reply-To: <200905270430.n4R4UxCI022956@aurora.sol.net>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

On Tue, 26 May 2009, Joe Greco wrote:

>> http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/default.aspx?edc=1036852

> Great, you're the latest person to invent a way to present a 5-15R that
> offers something besides 120VAC.  This is neither new nor novel, but it
> *is* dangerous and risky, and in no way "solves the problem."

No, this does NOT present 208v at a 5-15R.   Don't believe me, buy one and 
put a voltmeter across it.

I'll leave the FUD to others.

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