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Old 11-13-2007, 06:38 PM
Bill Ladd Bill Ladd is offline
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Originally Posted by cmac2012 View Post
What was I thinking -- you're right, it's 208. I checked it again at it flicked back and forth between 208 and 209. I knew it wasn't 220 and I had an odd number on my brain.
Actually, I didn't find that number so odd. Voltage will drop the further you are from the feeding transformer (as the wire length increases, so does the resistance). That's why many appliances and machines will operate within a range of voltage -- if I remember correctly, somewhere around 20% below or above the nameplate rating.
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