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2 unusual facts about High Voltage


High voltage

High-voltage lightning discharges in the atmosphere of Jupiter are thought to be the source of the planet's powerful radio frequency emissions.

For air at STP, the minimum sparkover voltage is around 327 volts, as noted by Friedrich Paschen.


Artimation

The judges (brought in from many companies in related fields to the categories of the contest such as Cartoon Network, High Voltage, Digital Domain, The Simpsons etc.) select winners and a handful of honorable mentions to be displayed at the festival.


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Aristes, Pennsylvania

In 1948, United Airlines Flight 624 hit a high-voltage powerline and crashed in Aristes.

Broadcast transmitter

For example, the Allouis, Konstantynow and Roumoules transmitters are fed from the high-voltage network (110 kV in Alouis and Konstantynow, 150 kV in Roumoules) even though a power supply from the medium-voltage level of the power grid (about 20 kV) would be able to deliver enough power.

Burundu

The Extra High Voltage (132 kV ) transmission line from Owen Falls, Jinja, Uganda crosses Burundu village on its way to Nairobi via a Sub-station at Kesses, near Eldoret.

Capacitor

In October 1745, Ewald Georg von Kleist of Pomerania in Germany found that charge could be stored by connecting a high-voltage electrostatic generator by a wire to a volume of water in a hand-held glass jar.

CHAdeMO

CHAdeMO (sometimes stylized CHΛdeMO, with uppercase Greek letter lambda) is the trade name of a quick charging method for battery electric vehicles delivering up to 62.5 kW of high-voltage direct current via a special electrical connector.

Electrode boiler

The electrodes are connected to a high voltage A.C. source (typically 6,600 volts to 13,800 volts){If D.C. voltage is used Electrolysis of water occurs decomposing water into its elements H2 at the cathode(-ve electrode) and O2 at the anode(+ve electrode)}.

Electrostatic nuclear accelerator

The high voltage is achieved either using the methods of Cockcroft & Walton or Van de Graaff, with the accelerators often being named after these inventors.

Erwin Otto Marx

Erwin Otto Marx was a German electrical engineer who invented the Marx generator, a device for producing high voltage electrical pulses.

Gabhricha Paus

Kisna never gives up even till the end, where ill-advised, he naively tries to tap electric power from the high voltage Electric power transmission lines to power his water pump of the recently installed bore-well and loses his life by electrocution.

Gnome Monosoupape

This arrangement eliminated the need for points, distributor, high-voltage wiring and capacitors found in conventional mechanically timed ignition systems.

High Voltage Hot Rod Show

High Voltage Hot Rod Show was inspired by games such as R.C. Pro-Am and Micro Machines, with the style of the characters and vehicles taking inspiration from Kustom Kulture and the artwork of Ed Roth and Kenny Howard amongst others.

Hradec substation

Hradec is starting point of two high voltage transmission lines to Germany, a 400 kV line to Röhrsdorf in Saxony and a 400-kV- line to Etzenricht in Bavaria.

Ionizer

Air ioniser, a device that uses high voltage to ionise air molecules

John Theodore Merz

His son, Charles Hesterman Merz, was a successful electrical engineer who pioneered the use of high-voltage three-phase AC power distribution in the United Kingdom.

Joondalup Drive

One of the main delays in construction of the Wanneroo Road carriage duplication was the relocation of 225KVa high voltage power lines from the Tapping Substation that resided within the road reserve area that was needed for these works.

Konti–Skan

This line, which is only in the proximity of the converter station and the cable terminal equipped with a ground conductor, was originally used by the high voltage pole of Konti–Skan 1 and from Vester Hassing until a point a few kilometres south of the cable terminal by the electrode line, which turned there eastwards to the ground electrode at Soera.

Kreuger

Frederik H. Kreuger (born 1928), Dutch high-voltage scientist, professor emeritus and a professional author

Lansdale/Doylestown Line

The ex-Reading's electrification system, however, relies on a transformer at Wayne Junction, and separate high-voltage pylons for longer-distance trains, similar to those found on European high-speed rail systems and on the Northeast Corridor between New Haven, Connecticut and Boston.

Lightning sphere

Plasma globe, a decorative electrical device using high voltage discharge within a transparent enclosure containing an inert gas

Lincoln Walsh

During the war, he worked with Rudy Bozak at the Dinion Coil Company in Caledonia, New York, developing high voltage power supplies for radar use.

Live at High Voltage Festival

Live At High Voltage is a 2 CD set released by the progressive rock band Spock's Beard recorded by Concert Live.

Marienfelde

Near the end of World War II, as part of the Elbe-Project, the world's first high-voltage direct current transmission lines were built from a power plant in Dessau, on the Elbe river, to Marienfelde.

Pre-charged

Pre-charge of the powerline voltages in a high voltage DC application;

Püssi

In December 2010, Siemens announced that Püssi had been selected as the location of one of two converter stations for their "EstLink 2" high voltage power line between Estonia and Finland.

RARAF

In 2006 the Van de Graaff was replaced by a 5 MV Singletron from High Voltage Engineering Europa (HVEE) in the Netherlands.

Robert Krampf

He put together a traveling, high voltage electricity show, centered on a one million volt Tesla coil.

Salem bin Laden

Salem bin Laden died on May 29, 1988 when he accidentally drifted into high voltage electrical power lines adjacent to the Kitty Hawk Field of Dreams Ultra-Lite Flying Field at the edge of Schertz, a northeastern San Antonio suburb.

San Manuel, Pangasinan

NGCP's San Manuel street-lighting project: the National Transmission Corporation (National Grid Corporation of the Philippines, NGCP) electrified San Manuel from Nagsaag Extra-High Voltage (EHV) substation down to Asuncion Street.

Seletracetam

Other than SV2A and the high-voltage-activated Ca2+ channels, seletracetam does not significantly bind to other CNS receptors, ion channels, or uptake mechanisms.

Steve Brudniak

His art incorporates, often pioneering, unconventional media and scientific elements such as high voltage electricity, Tesla coil technology, magnetic ferrofluid, gyro mechanics, biological preservations, fiber optics, and lasers.

Teleforce

Tesla's records indicate that the device is based on a narrow stream of small tungsten pellets that are accelerated via high voltage (by means akin to his magnifying transformer).

Thermo Electron

Zetatron, a high-voltage vacuum tube device that generates a stream of neutrons

Transener

Purchasing the power transmission network from a State enterprise, Compañia de Tranporte de Energía en Alta Tensión, upon its 1993 privatization, Transener operates 95% of the high voltage lines in Argentina, and is a subsidiary of Pampa Energía, the largest private electricity producer in the country.

Vector group

In electrical engineering, a vector group is the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) method of categorizing the high voltage (HV) windings and low voltage (LV) winding configurations of three-phase transformers.

Vladimír List

His was successful in effort to standardize voltages for transmission lines in Czechoslovakia in 1919 (220/380V for low voltage and 22kV/100kV for high-voltage lines) and power plug sockets.

Wireless World

It was also aimed at home constructors, publishing articles on building radio receivers and, after the BBC started regular 405-line TV programmes from Alexandra Palace in 1936, complete details on building your own TV set - including the winding of the high-voltage CRT deflector coils (not a task for the faint hearted).