[Amps] Lines Voltage High

[Jerry Kaidor]

> 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