Re: why use high voltage wire?

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Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>

Hi Adam,

About 99% of the high voltage transmission lines around the country are 
un-insulated, so it does work ;-)

Cheers,

         Terry


At 06:25 PM 3/13/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>Why do people worry about using high voltage cable to hook up all their 
>components? I know it will stop arcing that would happen between wires, 
>but if you are sure to keep the wires far apart, why would you need to use it?
>Thanks
>Adam