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From: brian@ucsd.Edu (Brian Kantor)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Fluorescent light ballasts
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Date: 21 Nov 89 14:49:29 GMT
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Many larger (most?) buildings use 277vac for the fluorescent lights.
It's easy to get off the 416 three-phase and you can use thinner wire
because the current is lower.

Fries the @$#!# out of those home-style infrared motion detectors,
though.
	- Brian