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In article <2223@kitty.UUCP> larry@kitty.UUCP (Larry Lippman) writes:
>... Assuming a power line voltage of 365 kV ... we have a voltage
>divider and therefore have around 183 kV on the pickup wire.

If you live in rural New York, or a few other places, you might be
near a 720 kV line, and could double that.

>... we will need a transformer with a 183 kV primary - neither cheap
>nor simple - nor a particularly safe do-it-yourself project.

Indeed.

>	Actually, the 1,000 feet of pickup wire 40 feet in the air on
>poles with huge insulators may make the power company suspicious....

`What's this for?'

`Ahh ... it's my radio antenna, yeah, that's the ticket.'

On a somewhat more serious note, for what it is worth, my old Junior
High Graphics Arts department used to have problems with videotapes
fading over the summer.  We were a few hundred meters away from a
360 kV line, but I suspect it had more to do with their tape storage
cabinet being located too close to the carbon arc lamp used for
making silk screens. :-)
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