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Originally posted by spived2
ou get double the amount of electrons to feed their hungry motors. But for regular wall sockets, why do you need to have 220 power racing through your lightbulbs or computers when you could have 110 pumping out enough amperage to power them easily? Seems that would be a little more efficient.
Please enlighten me though...
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And so i shall.
We use 110V AC for wall outlets because the wire in the walls is only rated for say 40amps. (normal household applications, i'll get to HV in a sec.) We also use circut breakers to open the circut if there is a drain of say more then 30A. Its easier, and cheaper to use less copper to wire a home at 110v then it is 220V.
Fox.