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In Reply to: By only ~4% (5V out of 120V)? posted by Lew on March 24, 2016 at 20:58:20:
Your old (pre self limiting) Corvette. You can run it up to 300 rpm over the redline. But you sadly found out running up 400 rpm just blew up your engine. You took it up to 300 rpm over numerous times. but 400 just was the step too far.
Speaking of steps. stepping UP to the edge of the Grand Canyon. No problem. A half step further, and you are sleeping with the angels.Another car example: Tire pressure too low? Not a problem at even only 14 psi.. Drive all day. When that same tire on the same roads started it's final day at 13 psi. After an hour It blew out. Who would have thought?
Nascar is a prime bunch of endless examples of those tiny 'too far' things that causes a series of further events and a crashed car.
I can go on and on, but the thing is there are plenty of examples of specific points where things change drastically. This guys transformer just happened to be at such a point between 115 and 120 volts
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- Most things have a dramatic cutoff// For example... - Smelly_Socks 03/25/1613:25:34 03/25/16 (1)
- Point taken, but... - Lew 10:15:23 03/26/16 (0)