Re: Did low voltage cause the pc to fail?

From: Charles Schuler (charleschuler_at_comcast.net)
Date: 08/19/04


Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 16:45:54 -0400

Here in the US we have 240/120 supplied to homes. If the grounded conductor
fails, the voltage can divide up as 100 and 140 or as 80 and 160 and so on
depending on the loads at the time. Maybe that's what happened and it was
overvoltage that fried the computers.



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