Coen said:
First world voltage or 110V?
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What happened with mandatory location in profile??? [huh]
With 110V (as compared to 230V) the current will double for the same power. With the same cross section wiring, the absolute voltage drop will double (relative voltage drop quadrupled) and the power losses will also quadruple.
A fair question - but since the OP's name is George (a well-known name for a long succession of English kings [smile]) and he's using terms like 50m as part of his description (instead of 164 feet) - I thought it was fair to assume he was from the UK. Although some of our friends in North America have switched to metric, my experience is that the majority of them still use imperial, since that's all they know - it's second-nature to them and they're comfortable with it. So just to clarify - the figures quoted are based on 230v, not 110v. The reply from Alex also mentioned UK/Euro voltage and the consequent single-digit voltage drop, so he reached the same conclusion.
Oh - and regarding the name 'George' for an English king and my consequent UK assumption, I totally forgot about George Bush (both versions), George Carlin, George Clooney, George Washington, George Lucas, George Foreman, George Patton, George Burns, George Gershwin, George Peppard, and all of the others which I just remembered ............. but all of whom had parents who also named their sons after an English king. All of them - except for George Foreman's parents, that is. In an unusual move, they decided to name their son after an electric food-grilling gadget. Who would ever have known that colonialism would turn out to be such a great, great thing ?? [big grin]
And also (just to confuse matters even further) - here in the UK where we are 100% metric, we still measure our car's fuel economy in miles per gallon, we still weigh ourselves using stones and pounds, we measure our height in feet and inches, and when asked for directions by a stranger, we tell them to take the next turn, a hundred yards up on the left. Or if they miss the turn, they can turn their car around at the next roundabout - he one that's half a mile further up the road. It's opposite the racecourse (where the course distances are measured in furlongs, the course area is measured in acres, and the horse's height is measured in hands), and close to the edge of the sea whose depth is measured in fathoms. And as for women's dress sizes - don't even go there. Just don't.
Happy Friday everyone.
