Re: Power consumption

The surges I was talking about weren't necessarily the video games. I'll give
you an example: out at the farm one night I asked a friend what he thought
would happen to the lights in the machine shed when I turned on the radial arm
saw. He (of course) guessed they would dim. WRONG! They got quite a bit
brighter. Why? Because they were on the other "phase" and the voltage dropped
in the neutral when the saw was turned on got added to the other phase.

So now, the extreme example. You fire off a dozen or two video games all at
once on the same side of the neutral. Now what happens to the VCR and TV in the
living room when the line voltage surges to 150 volts (albeit briefly)?

Just something to think about.

Clay Cowgill wrote:

> >But seriously, if you are going to wire a room please do yourself a favor
> >and
> >try to keep the load balanced about both "phases" of the incoming 240
> >volts.
> >Will cost you a little less on power (power company meter is kinder to
> >balanced
> >loads, or so I've heard), and keeps surges to a minimum.
>
> The audiophile-looneys (sorry if I'm offending any audiophile-looneys out
> there ;-) are big on balanced power for reducing ground loop hum and noise.
> (Not *quite* the same as balancing both legs on the 240V service, but it's
> an interesting idea.) They tend to take 120V in and use a torroid to make
> two opposite taps each of 60V to run the electronics off of. I know I
> always seem to get hum out of my video games (Star Wars and Asteroids seem
> particularly finicky)-- might be interesting to see what one of those things
> would do for it...
>
> -Clay
>
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