On Apr 28, 1:09*am, mm wrote:
On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 22:50:40 -0700, Smitty Two





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"Jon Danniken" wrote:

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

Germany, I believe, is on 230. The story says his house was 150 meters
away. Perhaps the step-down was on the far side of his meat hook tap.

Doesn't Harbor Freight sell a combination meat hook / transformer, for
just this purpose?



Yes, more details would be interesting. That's quite a lengthy extension
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