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Default Man Steals Electricity With Meat Hook

mm wrote:
On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 20:29:45 -0700 (PDT), Larry Fishel
wrote:

Maybe he had his own transformer? (Or maybe they're using the term
"high-voltage" very loosely?)


Yeah, the latter especially. Some people talk like anything
controlled by the electric company is high voltage.


Motor nomenclature refers to 240VAC as "high voltage". This in reference to
120VAC, of course.

Jon