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Default Electric Problem or overloading the circuit

In article , terry wrote:

The more consistently higher voltages these days can have an impact on
older radios that were operated back when on, say 115 volts or less.
But which today often face 120 or higher.
Again (for simplicity) doing the V squared business, the difference
between say 113 volts and say 120 volts is almost a 13% increase


No, it's not. It's an increase of 6.19%.