>On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 07:12:46 -0800, R.Measures <r@somis.org> wrote:
>
>>California imports hydro-power from the North with a 1,000,000VDC,
>>center-tap grounded transmission line. In Sylmar, there's a rather
>>largish DC to AC inverter.
>
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>How do they convert such high DC voltages to AC? Thyratrons or
>something similar?
>
** Beats me, Bill, but stacked hydrogen thyratrons sounds likely. When
the Sylmar inverter fired up for the first time, the RFI problem was
cataclysmic. Screen-shielding eventually solved the problem.
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