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From: max@trinity.uucp (Max Hauser)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Running 120V AC equipment off 240V AC.
Summary: Stranded wire, etc.
Message-ID: <667@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu>
Date: 10 Feb 88 22:58:11 GMT
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In article <1055@uop.edu> todd@uop.edu (Dr. Nethack) writes:

> ...I recently purchased some copper wire for some lights I was
> rigging. The sales girl tried to talk my Father into buying
> stranded #12 wire, (more expensive than solid core)...
>"Because it makes the electricity go faster"

Good one!

Of course, she was "only a sales clerk," not supposed to be
knowledgeable about these things. This stands in marked contrast
to authorities we can find here on the Usenet -- rec.audio, for
instance -- many of whose explanations of the electrical physics,
in just such situations as solid vs. stranded wire, are a world
apart from this, dazzling in their clarity and substance. Aren't we
Usenet readers lucky, since we need not rely on such dubious 
sources as sales clerks for advice, but instead can harness the 
power of an expensive intercontinental computer network...

Don't know about you, but I can just barely stand it.

Max Hauser / max@eros.berkeley.edu / ...{!decvax}!ucbvax!eros!max


"And was Jerusalem builded here / Among those dark Satanic mills?"