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Questions related to the design of circuits that supply or use a high voltage. There are a few definitions but the IEC definition of a high-voltage supply system is above 1000 Vrms AC or 1500 V DC.

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Does a conductor that is heavily negatively charged affect the number of free electrons or c...

Back-of-the-envelope fun: According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitance#Self-capacitance, a 20-cm radius sphere has a capacitance of ~22 pF. If charged to -1 MV, it would have 22 uC of charge …
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How do transposition towers in transmission lines work?

Suppose you have three wires in a horizontal plane: . . . The middle wire is adjacent to two other wires. Thus, it will be affected differently than the wires on the end. So you want each wire to …
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