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Originally Posted by BigChiefTablet
I wasn't trolling. I could certainly imagine inefficient solar and wind collectors, and inefficient transformers causing a loss of power from the source. But once converted, I really couldn't imagine different qualities of electricity because volts times amps equals watts and it's not like getting a bad tank of gas at the Quick Trip.
Line loss over large distances can be a factor, which is why power companies run their lines at such high voltage, but I still can't see how they could lose power by accepting a customer's excess. But I admit I don't really know ****all about it.
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Are you familiar with phase timing or phase angles? If one's rectifiers manage to get the correct frequency and magnitude to his power output, if the wave timing is off, even while cycling at 60 waves per second, the result is a wave of de-energization and over-excitement on the line that could destroy electrical machines downstream. If it somehow managed to be exactly 180 degree out of phase, there would be no power transmission at all as the two waves would cancel each other out.