Pioneering Charlotte civil rights attorney Julius Chambers dies. Pioneering civil rights lawyer Julius Chambers â a crusader for equality whose landmark cases led to integrating Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools â died late Friday after months of declining health.
As it gets closer to your house it goes to a sub station where the voltage is lowered and then sent on its way. It finally arrives in your neighborhood and is sent to a transformer where the voltage is lowered to 220 volts. This is what comes into your house and goes to the circuit breaker box. The next section describes a bit of technical mumbo jumbo about sine waves and phase relationships.
1 The outlets, plugs, and switches in your home can handle higher levels of power. 2  They can take up to 125 or 250 volts, depending on the nominal voltage. 3  That's the upper end of the voltage range for both the power grid and the typical wall socket in your home. The power delivered to your home is 120 or 240 volts. 2  This is called nominal voltage.. 3  That means it's the standard voltage as measured at the transformer outside your home. 4  Nominal voltage can vary up to plus or minus 5 percent from its stated definition.