Re: Why Buy a Converter?

On Thu, 3 Jul 2008 01:24:20 +0000 (UTC) Alan <nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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|>On Wed, 2 Jul 2008 01:36:37 +0000 (UTC) Alan <nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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|>| In article <fv2fcv211fm@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> phil-news-nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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|>|>There are a lot of things that could be better about the way
electricity is
|>|>delivered to homes (maybe changing to DC is one of them).
|>| 
|>|  Unlikely.  It is hard to get cheaper voltage conversion than a
transformer.
|>
|>If the load needs DC, the transformer is inadequate to the task.
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|  If the load needs DC, you still need to convert the 500 KV distribution
| voltage down to the load voltage.  Transformers are the easy way to do
that.

You still get AC out of the transformer.  You still need more circuitry.


|>WHy do many heavy commercial/industrial locations prefer running
fluorescent
|>lighting on 277V instead of 120V?
| 
|  Because you just happen to have it in commercial locations, and you
don't
| need starters.  277 volt sources will strike the arc.

As will 240V.

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