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How electricity gets from the generating plant to an appliance in a home?
Wiki User
∙ 6y ago
through: wires, Transformers, breakers, switches, etc.
Something like:
- Power plant wires carry electricity to plant switching farm.
- Switches in switching farm direct electricity to step-up transformer for a transmission line.
- Step-up transformer increases voltage to reduce transmission losses.
- Wires from step-up transformer go to high voltage breaker to protect switching farm from transmission line current spikes.
- Transmission line wires attach to breakers and leave plant switching farm.
- Transmission line wires run hundreds of miles to consumer locations.
- Transmission line wires enter a distribution switching farm and attach to high voltage breakers to protect switching farm from transmission line current spikes.
- Wires from breakers go to step-down transformer to decrease voltage for safe distribution.
- Wires from step-down transformer go to switches in switching farm.
- Switches in switching farm connect electricity to desired distribution lines.
- Each distribution line has breakers on it to protect the switching farm and the line.
- Distribution lines run to various neighborhoods.
- At each customer location the distribution line connects to a step-down transformer to reduce the voltage to what the customer needs (e.g. U.S. residential 120V/240V 2phase).
- Wires connect the step-down transformer to the customer's fuse/breaker box and distribution panel.
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∙ 12y ago
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