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n. - A unit of electrical potential difference.

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  • The essential ingredients of the power supply are two 15 kilovolt neon transformers.
  • Approval for a 230 kilovolt substation on 4.94 acres zoned TR3LF (transitional residential).
  • Mozambique will build about 135 kilometres of 220 kilovolt transmission line and expand its existing Matambo substation.
  • It takes the output from a 120vAC to several kilovolt transformer & driver circuit and steps it up to an extremely high voltage.
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