Volts Sentence Examples

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  • Thus at 4000 metres the potential seems of the order of 150,000 volts.

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  • He supposes the field near the earth to be ioo volts per metre, or 1/300 electrostatic units.

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  • The subjection of the core to a hydraulic pressure of four tons to the square inch and an electric pressure of 5000 volts from an alternating-current transformer has been adopted, by one manufacturer at least, to secure the detection of masked faults which might develop themselves after submergence.

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  • Electrostatic voltmeters are now almost entirely used for the measurement of high voltages from 2000 to 50,000 volts employed in electrotechnics.

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  • The electromotive force of each cell is i 07 volts and the resistance 3 ohms. The Fuller bichromate battery consists of an outer jar containing a solution of bichromate of potash and sulphuric acid, in which a plate of hard carbon is immersed; in the jar there is also a porous pot containing dilute sulphuric acid and a small quantity (2 oz.) of mercury, in which stands a stout zinc rod.

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  • These spark balls are connected either to the secondary circuit of an induction coil I, or to that of an alternating current transformer having a secondary voltage of 20,000 to 100,000 volts.

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  • The arc is produced by leading a current of about 5000 volts equatorially between the poles of an electromagnet; this produces what is practically a disk of flame, 62 ft.

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  • The Siemens and Halske ozonizer, in form somewhat resembling the old laboratory instrument, is largely used in Germany; working with an alternating current transformed up to 650o volts, it has been found to give 280 grains or more of ozone per e.

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  • For this purpose the ohmmeter is provided with a small dynamo D, contained in a box, which produces a continuous electromotive force of from 200 to 500 volts when the handle of the instrument is steadily turned.

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  • We then know that the fall of potential down the 2000 divisions of the fine wire must be exactly 2 volts.

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  • Thus, for instance, if an experiment were made with a Leclanche cell, and if the balancing-point were found to be at 1500 divisions on the scale, the electromotive force would be determined as I 50o volts.

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  • By such an arrangement the potential difference can be measured of any amount from o to 1.5 volts.

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  • We can thus measure as described the drop in volts down a known fraction of the whole high resistance and therefore calculate the fall in potential down the whole of the high resistance, which is the potential difference required.

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  • At first the current is 3000 amperes at 220 volts, increasing to 9000 amperes at 20 volts after 20 hours.

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  • For this purpose a resistance, say, of one ohm is placed in series with the lamp and a resistance of 100,000 ohms placed across the terminals of the lamp; the latter resistance is divided into two parts, one consisting of loon ohms and the other of 99,000 ohms. The potentiometer enables us to measure therefore the current through the lamp by measuring the drop in volts down a resistance in series with it and the potential difference of the terminals of the lamp by measuring the drop in volts down the tooth part of the high resistance of 100,000 ohms connected across the terminals of the lamp.

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  • When so made, the cell has an electromotive force of 1.072 volts and no sensible temperature variation.

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  • This movement is resisted by the torsional elasticity of the suspending wire, and hence a fixed indicating needle attached to the movable system can be made to indicate directly on a scale, the difference of potential between the terminals of the instrument in volts.

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  • For such purposes the whole of the working parts are contained in a metal case; the indicating needle moving over a divided scale which is calibrated to show directly the potential difference in volts of the terminals of the instrument.

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  • Electromagnetic voltmeters may therefore be thermal, electromagnetic or electrodynamic. As a rule, electromagnetic voltmeters are only suitable for the measurement of relatively small potentials - o to 200 or 300 volts.

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  • If the wire has a resistance of 300 ohms and is connected to two points differing in potential by 100 volts, the instrument passes a current of one-third of an ampere and takes up 33 watts in power.

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  • The transformer working from a public supply should give about 6000 volts on open circuit, although when the electric flame is established the voltage on the platinums is only from 1600 to 2000.

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  • After the discharge was once started, the difference of potentials at the terminals of the tube varied from 630 volts upwards.

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  • Cryolite is not a safe body to electrolyse, because the minimum voltage needed to break up the aluminium fluoride is 4.0, whereas the sodium fluoride requires only 4.7 volts; if, therefore, the current rises in tension, the alkali is reduced, and the final product consists of an alloy with sodium.

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  • Each generator can develop 5000 H.P. at a potential of 2200 volts, and is driven by three horizontal double turbines on the same shaft; when working under a minimum head of 32 ft.

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  • They drive electric generators, and the current so produced is taken at a pressure of 22,000 volts on overhead wires a distance of 35 m.

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  • The Wire Had A Length Of 760 Cms., And The Potential Difference On Its Terminals Was Nearly 30 Volts.

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  • The energy stored up in the jar in joules is expressed by the value of CV 2, where C is the capacity measured in farads and V the potential difference of the coatings in volts.

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  • At one end is an insulated plate P kept at a potential of 200 volts or so above the earth by a battery.

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  • The formula indicates that the sensibility of the instrument should increase with the charge of the Leyden jar or needle, whereas Hopkinson found that as the potential of the needle was increased by working the replenisher of the jar, the deflection due to three volts difference between the quadrants first increased and then diminished.

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  • He found that when the potential of the needle exceeded a certain value, of about volts, for the particular instrument he was using (made by White of Glasgow), the above formula did not hold good.

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  • In this case the deflection of the needle was practically quite constant when its potential varied from to 3227 volts.

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  • The needle is charged to a potential of 50 to 200 volts by means of a dry pile or voltaic battery, or from a lighting circuit.

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  • But if the difference of potential exceed a small amount (i or 2 volts), the jets instantaneously coalesce.

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  • The Peltier coefficient may also be expressed in volts or microvolts, and may be regarded as the measure of an E.M.F.

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  • Currents from the ten-thousandth of an ampere to ten thousand amperes, electrical pressures from a minute fraction of a volt to 100,000 volts, come within the range of his instruments, while the private consumer of electric energy is provided with a meter recording Board of Trade units.

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  • Retest with multi meter Meter reads 15- 20 volts alternator is charging too much, regulator is not working properly & needs replacement.

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  • At 7 volts, the nominal voltage of the sheathed-element glow plugs is significantly lower than the 12 volts of the main electrical circuit.

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  • However, his design uses a supply voltage of 1500 volts, in order to force many kilowatts of power into the resonator.

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  • The pulse produced in the modulator has a voltage greater than 10,000 volts and lasts about 1 microsecond.

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  • Electricity 220 volts AC, with standard Continental European-style two-pin plugs (coming from the UK, an adaptor will be required ).

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  • We were planning as the next stage to run up the motor generator using a three phase rectifier to provide about 550 volts.

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  • A master showman, he often started his performances with a demonstration of his electrical powers by passing 30,000 volts through his body.

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  • Underground cables carry electricity at 33,000 Volts from La Collette power station to the five primary substations on the island.

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  • The electrical supply on the islands is 240 volts ac.

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  • With the fan running at 7 volts the max temp I have under load is 45 degs and that's in a warm room.

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  • Numatic UK have produced this specialist hazardous dust vac in 240volts or 110 volts.

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  • Only where overhead feeder lines occur, are electric fields likely to exceed a few volts per meter.

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  • This link enables or disables this function by applying 0 volts or 5 volts to pin 30.

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  • The Gilkes Vortex turbine was manufactured in Kendal and drove a 6kw dynamo generating 110 volts.

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  • Electricity Overhead lines carry 25,000 volts AC, conductor rails carry 750 volts DC.

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  • The installation consisted of a steam driven generator, which supplied 100 volts D.C. for the lamps.

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  • Turn the large black voltage dial on the front panel to read 200 Volts.

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  • When the PC is ready for more bytes it asserts RTS (+12 volts) and the flow of bytes to it resumes.

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  • The voltage used on the line is nominally +5 Volts.

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  • The machines used to take X-ray pictures produce X-rays with energies of around 120,000 electron volts.

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  • Make connection to the outer positive and negative posts, treating the two six volts as one big twelve volt unit.

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  • The anode voltage is about 3000 volts under a load of 850 ma.

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  • If its potential as observed there is -V (volts), then the potential of the air at the spot occupied by the sphere was +V.

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  • With a view to this, it has become increasingly common of late years to publish not the voltages actually observed, but values deduced from them for the potential gradient in the open in volts per metre.

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  • Liideling (9) found for the mean value for 1904 in volts per metre 242.

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  • In reality the December range was 82, the June only 57 volts; but the mean value of the potential was 243 in December as against III in June.

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  • These mean values, ranges and amplitudes are all measured in volts per metre (in the open).

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  • The formula makes the gradient diminish from 25 volts per metre at 1500 metres height to To volts per metre at 4000 metres.

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  • Accepting Linke's formula, the potential at 4000 metres is 43,750 volts higher than at 1500 metres.

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  • If the mean of the gradients observed at the ground and at 1500 metres be taken as an approximation to the mean value of the gradient throughout the lowest 1500 metres of the atmosphere, we find for the potential at 1500 metres level 112,500 volts.

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  • Suppose, for instance, that in the absence of the wire the potential falls from 264 to 255 volts in 15 minutes, whilst when the wire (io metres long) is introduced it falls from 264 to 201 volts in io minutes, then IoA=(264-201)x6-(264-255)x4=342; or A=34.2.

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  • At Karasjok Simpson (10) found fairly similar mean values of A for two groups of observations, one confined to cases when the potential gradient exceeded +400 volts, the other confined to cases of negative gradient.

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  • The charge on the earth itself has its surface density given by v = - (I/47r) X125 volts per metre, =0.000331 in electrostatic units.

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  • It can handle a PA supply of 12 volts at 18 amps, well in excess of my system !

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  • The system was powered by overhead transmission of 3500 volts dc with power taken from the public electric service.

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  • Super speeds The idea of plugging your computer or stereo inputs directly into 240 volts of mains electricity sounds a little frightening.

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  • This corresponds to an output voltage of 40 volts.

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  • If the voltmeter reading is still zero volts, an improper connection still exists in the equipment.

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  • Flexible solar panels come in different sizes ranging from five volts to 60 volts.

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  • If the hybrid vehicles utilizes regenerative braking above sixty volts and uses a gas engine along with an electric motor, it is considered to be a mild to muscle hybrid.

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  • Low-voltage lighting systems use a transformer to drop the 120-volt house current to 12 volts, about the amount of electricity used for a train set or car battery.

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  • However, most track lighting kits operate on 12 or 24 volts supplied by a transformer.

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  • Even if you are using the kits, the system requires that a transformer that converts 120 volts to 12 volts be installed.

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  • The transformer gets wired to the 120-volt line circuit and steps the voltage down to either 12 or 24 volts.

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  • Since hybrid vehicles utilize a lot of electrical power, a malfunction could cause electric jolts of more than 500 volts, which can be fatal.

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  • Children are not often seriously injured by electricity, but they are prone to electric shock by the low voltage (110-220 volts) of typical household current.

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  • A person shocked by high voltage (500 volts or more) should be evaluated in the emergency department of a hospital or clinic.

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  • Brief low-voltage shocks (110-220 volts or less) that do not result in any symptoms or burns of the skin do not require care.

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  • Most units are between 31" to 34" in height and run off of standard household voltage (115 volts).

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  • This model requires 692 watts and 115 volts for cooling, with a required ampacity of 6.2.

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  • The ACPA4000 requires 1610 watts and 115 volts for cooling, and a minimum cooling ampacity of 14.4.

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  • This Maytag A/C unit requires a minimum of 115 volts, 815 watts and 9.8 ampls.

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  • This unit requires 115 volts, 1170 watts and 10.7 amps, and measures 23.625 inches wide by 21.75 inches deep by 15 inches high.

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  • This portable air conditioner requires 115 volts, 800 watts and 7.5 amps.

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  • This model has 16.8 volts of power as well as a wall-mounted charging stand.

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  • The Gator Series units all carry around 15 volts of power and are Energy Star rated.

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  • Different volts of electricity change the surface metal to different colors - which to me is like MAGIC.

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  • The battery should list the voltage (usually 3 volts, abbreviated 3V) and have a number that begins with two letters.

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  • The potentials that have to be dealt with are often hundreds and sometimes thousands of volts, and insulation troubles are more serious than is generally appreciated.

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  • The electromotive force of each cell is 2.14 volts, and the resistance 4.

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  • Such a furnace, to take a current of 4 H.P. (say, of 60 amperes and so volts), measured externally about 6 by 6 by 7 in., and the electrodes were about o 4 in.

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  • In such a furnace a continuous current, for example, of 3000 amperes, at 50 to 60 volts, may be used at first, increasing to 5000 amperes in about half an hour.

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  • In one the exciting armature is rotated, producing the working voltage of 250, 500 or loon volts.

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  • Hence the resistance of the insulator can be ascertained, since it is expressed in ohms by the ratio of the voltage of the battery in volts to the current through the C C galvanometer in amperes.

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  • With a supply pressure of 200 volts a 5 c.p. carbon filament lamp takes only 0.1 ampere; hence unless a meter will begin to register with 1 1 - 6 - ampere it will fail to record the current consumed by a single small incandescent lamp. In a large supply system such failure would mean a serious loss of revenue.

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  • A voltmeter is therefore one form of electrometer, but the term is generally employed to describe the instrument which indicates on a scale, not merely in arbitrary units but directly in volts, the potential difference of its terminals.

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  • Ayrton and others, for measuring voltages from 10,000 volts down to 1 volt.

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  • Near the town is a station for reducing the voltage, and current is distributed at 125 volts for lighting purposes and at 500 volts for use on the tramways and for other power purposes.

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  • Of The Clark Cells To Have In Reality Been 1.4323 Volts, Or About 2 Millivolts Less Than The Value Assumed.

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  • Of The Clark Cell Is Probably Less Than 1.4340 Volts (The Value Assumed By Schuster And Gannon), There Is No Difficulty In Reconciling The Result With That Of Rowland.

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  • The jar can be charged so that a certain potential difference V, reckoned in volts, exists between the two coatings.

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  • The safe voltage for most glass jars is about 20,000 volts for glass 1 ' 0 th in.

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  • The size of jar commonly known as a quart size may have a capacity from 4 o 0 th to s 00 oth of a microfarad, and if charged to 20,000 volts stores up energy from a quarter to half a joule or from -ths to Iths of a foot-pound.

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