[BC] 110 V DC

[Wayne]

The old "wincharger"  Wind driven generators, and farm systems were 
primarily DC until the advent of the TVA in the 40's.

Wayne W.
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From: <ChuxGarage at aol.com>
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Sent: Saturday, December 02, 2006 2:51 PM
Subject: [BC] 110 V DC


>
>
>> >My question is:  Was there anyplace in the U.S. that was served with 110
>> DC
>> >power?  If so I never heard of it.  If there wasn't then why were so 
>> >many
>> >radios made with AC/DC power supplies?
>>
>> Absolutely.  Boston had it well into the 1970's.  I'm sure that New York 
>> City
> had it as well as lots of other east coast locations.
>
> During my touring sound career, we were doing a Cat Stevens show in one of
> Boston's old Vaudeville style Theaters. (The Schubert, maybe?) The stage 
> area
> had been updated for normal, modern AC service, but the dressing rooms and 
> some
> other areas had DC outlets.
>
> One of the road crew took a Fender practice amplifier into one of the
> dressing rooms to tune the multitude of guitars.  Not thinking (or 
> knowing) he
> plugged it into a two prong outlet and flipped on the power switch. 
> Nothing
> happened for about a minute or so until the power transformer came to a 
> rolling boil
> and erupted in a very violent fashion.  It sure did stink up the place. 
> They
> even called the fire department.
>
> Of course, a lot of the attraction of the AC-DC radios was they were 
> cheap.
> Dangerous by today's standards, but cheap....
>
> Chuck Conrad
> KZQX Radio
> www.kzqx.com
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