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Re: [Amps] Lines Voltage High

To: "Glen Zook" <gzook@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [Amps] Lines Voltage High
From: "Jerry Kaidor" <jerry@tr2.com>
Reply-to: jerry@tr2.com
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 17:20:45 -0700 (PDT)
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> The ambient line voltage for most major electric companies has been
> 125-volts +/- 2-volts for decades.  
>
>finally, today,
> 125-volts.  The primary reason for increasing the voltage is that the
> customer pays by the kilowatt-hour.  Modern appliances require more
> kilowatt-hours

*** Now THAT makes sense.   Yes, I thought about adding a bucking
transformer.  But given that the tube bias line is actually brought out
to the PTT, it was simpler to just add a diode string to set the bias to
some small negative value so that the quiescent was within reason.

                             - Jerry Kaidor


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