Hi, Joel Baker wrote: > Diesel locomotives are a giant diesel generator hooked up to electric > traction motors, running through the switchbox at something like 600v > (I haven't read the specs in a while, this might be off - but it's high > enough to warrant being really careful around). Don't even ask about the > amperage. Sapping off a little power to run a few household outlets is, by > comparison, peanuts. Or, really, peanut crumbs.
... assuming that the circuitry used to sap off 220Vac from that is up to the task. A few years ago in Germany there was a huge stink raised by the environmentalists (rightly so, IMHO) because the mid-range trains running on nonelectrified trains sometimes ran with two Diesel locomotives so that the coffee machines in the train bistro could get enough juice. :-/ -- Matthias Urlichs | {M:U} IT Design @ m-u-it.de | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Disclaimer: The quote was selected randomly. Really. | http://smurf.noris.de -- "Finding that no religion is based on facts and cannot be true, I began to reflect what must be the condition of mankind trained from infancy to believe in error." [Robert Owen, 19th century reformer]