Folks, The power company loves higher delivery voltages - makes your Kwh meter turn faster since most of your house loads are resistive (voltage sensitive). Think about it. I'd like to run my entire house on 115 volts, even the bulbs would last longer. One 15Kva tapped transformer would do it but then you need to figure in the transformer losses.
John KF2JQ Sara & Wayne Steiner wrote: > Jim , > I have had this problem one way or another for years ever since I have > started to use the old boat anchors. There are times when my line voltage > is as high as 129 v! This really plays havoc with a rig like the B&W 5100. > The bucking xfmr seems to work OK for some other vintage enthusiests in the > Mo,Kans area, but since my line voltage (rural elec co-op) varies a lot I > have resorted to variacs.One treasure I have is a 22amp unit which can > handle a bunch of boat anchors at one time. > 73 > Wayne, N0TE > > _______________________________________________ > AMRadio mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio
