Thank goodness Westinghouse beat out Edison on that one...
Jerry W5JH
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From: TenTec [mailto:tentec-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Jim Brown
Sent: Friday, September 07, 2012 2:36 PM
To: tentec@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TenTec] station power supplies
On 9/7/2012 12:15 PM, chacuff wrote:
> istribute DC power through our homes for lighting and avoid the
> inefficiencies in the crazy power supplies
Don't forget Ohm's Law. The reason we use AC for power distribution is
that it can be transformed to the voltage needed to keep wire loss low.
Low voltage DC is fine if copper is free. :)
73, Jim K9YC
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