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Aloisiustoday at 2:19 AM2 repliesview on HN

This article seems to imply that 800V DC is high-voltage DC, but that seems quite low.


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bigiaintoday at 2:42 AM

I think there'a a regulatory "Low Voltage" definition of "below 50V", which has implications around whether you need to be a licensed electrician to install it or not. Anything above that is - for at least some purposes - considered "High Voltage".

Other people, of course, have other definitions of high voltage:

"This resonant tower is known as a Tesla coil. This particular one is just over 17 feet tall and it can generate about a million volts at 60,000 cycles per second."

and:

"This pulse forming network can deliver a shaped pulse of over 50,000 amps with a total energy of about 1,057 times the tower primary energy"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoGbrgOhPes

MathMonkeyMantoday at 2:23 AM

Quite low compared to a power utility's HVDC, but quite high compared to the 5/12/24 V output of most AC/DC converters used for electronics.