line voltage
Americannoun
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The line voltage changes ever so slightly and the dynamos spin up or down to compensate.
From Scientific American • Jan. 5, 2011
Even this arrangement did not suffice to keep the line voltage as constant as seemed desirable in some cases, as where lighting and traction work were put on the same plant.
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
A battery which gasses soon after it is put oil charge, and while still in a discharged condition, should be taken off the line, or the charging line voltage reduced.
From The Automobile Storage Battery Its Care And Repair by Witte, Otto A.
You can convert this to watts, of course, by multiplying amperage by the line voltage.
From Electricity for the 4-H Scientist Idaho Agricultural Extension Service Bulletin 396, June, 1962 by Wilson, Eric B.
At the generating station at Menlo Park four Z dynamos of 110 volts were used, connected two in series, in multiple arc, giving a line voltage of 220.
From Edison, His Life and Inventions by Dyer, Frank Lewis
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