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What is the distance from the floor for a bedside light switch?

in the USA if following the NEC there is no specific requirement for wall switch heights for general lighting There may be requirements for machinery


How tall are power lines?

Typical height ranges from 15 to 55 metres (49 to 180 ft), although heights in excess of 300 metres (980 ft) do exist. Check Wikipedia out for more info. I needed to know the heights so I could compare wind turbine proposals with something already in the landscape.


How far are electricity poles apart?

The route for an overhead electricity line is surveyed to provide a profile (gradients) of the route -including any obstacles (roadways, rivers, outbuildings, etc.). Wherever possible, individual poles are placed where they will cause the least obstruction to farmers' machinery, etc. Ideally, means utilising natural or man-made features -e.g. following hedgerows, stone walls, etc. But, ultimately, their locations and, therefore, their distances apart, depend upon ensuring that the conductor sag remains above the minimum safety clearance, allowing for changes in temperature, ice loading, etc., and taking into account the profile (gradients) of the land and obstacles along their route. This is determined by a combination of the heights of adjacent poles and their distances apart and gradients/obstacles between. For routes across open, flat, countryside, the poles are likely to be roughly equidistant but, for route profiles that vary considerably in height, with obstacles, these distances can vary considerably.


What is potential difference or voltage?

If you take two different nodes in a network and if you find the difference in voltage for those nodes then it is known as potential or voltage difference. Here the reference is not taken. But if you find potential difference between a node and its respective ground it is known as voltage at that node here reference is ground potential i.e zero.Answer'Voltage' is synonymous with 'potential difference'; they both mean the same thing. And it is important that these terms are not confused with 'potential'. So, it is incorrect to say 'voltage difference' (which would mean 'potential difference difference'!), or to describe a voltage as existing 'at' a particular point, or 'with reference to', for example, earth or ground.In very simple terms, if two points are at different potentials, then there is a potential difference (or 'voltage') between them. A potential exists when work is done moving a charge to a particular point; the greater the work, the higher the potential. 'Potential' is roughly equivalent to the potential energy gained by an object when it is lifted against the force of gravity.Think of it this way: 'potential' is equivalent to 'height', whereas 'potential difference' (voltage) is equivalent to the difference between points at different heights.


Why you need modulation?

It might be helpful to have a working definition of modulation before making a statement as to why it is needed. In fact, with an understanding of what modulation is, it will be obvious why it is included in electronic communications.Modulation is the "message" or the "intelligence" that is impressed on a radio frequency (RF) carrier. When we transmit a signal, we generate a carrier frequency, and then we modulate it. We "add" the message or the information we wish to transmit by modulating the carrier in some way. There are at least a dozen different modulation schemes ranging from simple to real head scratchers. They either modify the amplitude, the frequency or the phase of the carrier. Let's look at a few.The simplest modulation technique is taking the transmitted signal and turning it on and off. It is "keyed" to send a series of pulses. Morse code uses on-off keying. In this method of modulation, no modification of the RF carrier signal itself is made. It is simply switched on and off. (It could be looked at as amplitude modulation with the carrier either at zero amplitude or at "maximum" amplitude with nothing in between.) A series of pulses can be transmitted. With Morse code, a short "on" period will send a dot or "dit" out. If we extend the "on" period a bit, we can send a dash or "dah" out. Nothing real sophisticated here, but basic and effective communication. There are obvious limits to how fast information can be transmitted with this modulation scheme. (But don't tell the hams who still use it!)Most of us are familiar with AM radio. AM is amplitude modulation. The amplitude of the RF carrier is modified to modulate it. The amplitude of the modulating signal will determine the amount that the amplitude of the carrier is changed. (The volume of the modulation determines how much the amplitude of the carrier is changed. The frequency of the modulating signal determines the rate of change of the amplitude of the carrier. (The frequency of the modulation determines how fast the amplitude of the carrier is changed.). The frequency of the carrier is held constant through all this.How about FM? In frequency modulation, the amplitude of the carrier is constant. It's left alone. But the frequency of the RF carrier is changed. It is swung above and below where it sits (it's assigned center frequency) at a rate proportional to the frequency of the modulating signal, and at an amount proportional to the amplitude of the modulating signal. In FM single sideband, the carrier frequency and the frequencies above the carrier are transmitted and the frequencies below the carrier are suppressed (upper sideband transmission). Or the frequencies below the carrier are transmitted with the carrier and the upper frequencies are suppressed (lower sideband transmission). In conventional television, the video signal is single sideband, suppressed carrier. It's like "regular" upper sideband transmission except the carrier signal is suppressed. Sideband transmission "saves" space on the RF spectrum. And it works because we really don't need "all" of the FM signal to demodulate the signal at the receiver.Other forms of modulation become more complex. CDMA (code division multiple access), TDMA (time division multiple access) and other methods are used in cell phones to modulate the carrier so the digital data stream can be impressed on the carrier.Modulation is the addition of intelligence to a carrier signal. It's the message. Modulation is necessary because the point of communication is getting the message through.A Simple answer:Simply this... Any communications medium: e.g. Free space - radio waves, Air - Sound waves or radio waves, Optical Fibre - Light, Copper Wires Electrical Anergy (with frequency limits of the copper wire construction) is made for a certain type of signal. But if the signal we want to send is not compatible with the medium, then it does not travel well.Modulation changes the information we want to send from it's original form, into one that is more compatable with the medium we are trying to use.For example, your computer speaks digital over a TCP/IP LAN which requires CAT 5 or better rated cables,, but to connect to your internet service provider (ISP), you need to send the signal over the wires of the telephone company (made for voice tones). To make this connection, and ADSL modem (modulator/demodulator) is used to convert the data into audio tones, which pass over the telephone line, and at the far end are converted back to digital to join the service providers network. in the reverse direct the ISP does the same, and the signals are de-modulated, back to data for your network.Or in simple terms, Its about best use of the medium. Everything else is just a away of doing it. And there are a lot of possible ways to choose.

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