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Mike Williams wrote: |
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> On Thursday 03 August 2006 19:27, James wrote: |
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>> The simplist solution is NOBODY puts a 240 VAC power supply |
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>> into a computer unless it's going to draw some serious current |
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>> (amps) thus by the nature of it being 240 VAC, you already know |
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>> it is a power hog. |
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> Now, I'm not electrical engineer, but I know my way around a fuse board and |
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> electricity having fitted out both our new offices for power, network, and |
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> some walls. |
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> In the UK, and most (if not all) of Europe, Africa, and Asia too, run on about |
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> 240 volts, 230 +-10% I think now. |
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> Pretty much the whole world, except the Americas. |
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Well, the USA has the same coming in too. We have 220v to 240v coming |
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in but that is split into different legs for the 110v to 120v stuff. |
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If you are using transformers to reduce it from 220v to 110v, that will |
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waste some energy right there. Transformers are not real efficient. If |
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you touch it and it is warm, that is what you are wasting. That will |
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also make whatever you are cooling with work harder too. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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