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To transmit a lot of electrical power, you either need a high voltage or a high current. But a higher current means your cables got hotter and you lose a lot of energy so is better to use higher voltage. To increase the voltage, we need to use a step up Transformers.

Step up transformers are transformers which has ability to increase the voltage and they have more turns on the secondary coil on the primary coil.

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