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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MA-3D" data-source="post: 1389313" data-attributes="member: 564865"><p>The voltage running between the powerpoles on the street is actuall thousands of volts.  It is not reduced to 220 until it gets to a transformer located somewhere near the houses it is being supplied to.  The reason the voltage is so high is that if you were to try and send 220 out from the powerplant directly, by the time it arrived at the houses it was intended for, due to voltage drop it would be much below 220 V.  Another reason the the voltage is so high is to reduce total amperage being sent through the supply wiring otherwise the wiring would have to be enourmous, much much bigger than 0 guage</p></blockquote><p></p>

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