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From: grege@gold.gvg.tek.com (Greg Ebert)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: polarity
Message-ID: <2226@gold.gvg.tek.com>
Date: 25 Apr 91 16:28:23 GMT
References: <11864@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> <1991Apr23.152315.22825@news.larc.nasa.gov> <1991Apr24.111307.2296@dcs.simpact.com>
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In article <1991Apr24.111307.2296@dcs.simpact.com> jeh@dcs.simpact.com writes:
>
[...]
>you lost me here.  The hot side goes from +84 V to -84 V and back, referenced
>to neutral, for a peak-to-peak swing of 168.  There is no "DC component"
>anywhere.
[...]

Almost. 120V RMS sinusoids are actually 340 v p-p, or 170 v peak. You are
absolutely correct about there NOT being a DC component. If there *was*
a DC component in your AC service, it would quickly saturate every
inductive load. Hmmmm, sounds like a nasty prank ;-) .