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- From: kenk@sdc.com (Ken Konecki)
- Newsgroups: chi.general
- Subject: Re: ILLINOIS PRAIRIE PATH NEWS
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.142641.11281@sdc.com>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 14:26:41 GMT
- References: <1993Jan18.145258.26932@sdc.com> <1993Jan19.204406.17895@i88.isc.com> <1993Jan20.232531.14337@cbnewsc.cb.att.com>
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- In article <1993Jan20.232531.14337@cbnewsc.cb.att.com> res@cbnewsc.cb.att.com (Rich Strebendt) writes:
- >Even if there was overhead wire, though, the voltage on
- >that would have been in the 200-600vac range, not in the multi-kilovolt
- >range.
-
- It was 600 volts DC. The nice thing about DC over AC is that it
- doesn't generate any EMF.
-
- Cheers,
- -Ken K
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