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6 Sep 2024 03:16:22 EDT (-0400)
  Re: UK mains voltage  
From: Eero Ahonen
Date: 8 Jun 2009 00:10:15
Message: <4a2c8f27@news.povray.org>
clipka wrote:
> 
> You need to invest extra power to get the higher frequency at the same AC
> voltage and amps, right?

Hmm, possibly.

> So where does that extra power end up if you have the otherwise same AC running
> through your body?

At least part of it goes to heating the generator, which runs faster :).

> EM field I'd guess - which may be just the extra "kick" you'd rather do without.

That actually sounds reasonable. My head is atm too empty to remember
how to calculate energies of EM fields, but it would make sense, while
the field sure is frequency-dependent.

-Aero


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