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<p>[QUOTE="speedyk, post: 10372780, member: 162834"]Lived in a NYC brownstone for almost a decade, it had 120v DC outlets in the basement from when Con Ed was pushing DC over AC, they still worked and there was a desk fan down there that ran on DC and still worked. That was a real mystery to me, that DC was still being produced and sent out over some ancient wires. The outlets were the same as AC, had to be careful plugging stuff in down there.</p><p><br /></p><p>That place still had live gas lines to light fixtures in the hallways, I could reach up, twist, and they would hiss.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="speedyk, post: 10372780, member: 162834"]Lived in a NYC brownstone for almost a decade, it had 120v DC outlets in the basement from when Con Ed was pushing DC over AC, they still worked and there was a desk fan down there that ran on DC and still worked. That was a real mystery to me, that DC was still being produced and sent out over some ancient wires. The outlets were the same as AC, had to be careful plugging stuff in down there. That place still had live gas lines to light fixtures in the hallways, I could reach up, twist, and they would hiss.[/QUOTE]
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