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  2. Digital television transition - Wikipedia

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    Digital TV signals require less transmission power to be broadcast and received satisfactorily. [ 1 ] The switchover process is being accomplished on different schedules in different countries; in some countries it is being implemented in stages as in Australia, Greece, India or Mexico, where each region has a separate date to switch off.

  3. Voltage spike - Wikipedia

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    However voltage spikes can also have more mundane causes such as a fault in a transformer or higher-voltage (primary circuit) power wires falling onto lower-voltage (secondary circuit) power wires as a result of accident or storm damage. Voltage spikes may be longitudinal (common) mode or metallic (normal or differential) mode.

  4. Northeast blackout of 2003 - Wikipedia

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    Information was available by over-the-air TV and radio reception for those who were equipped to receive TV and/or audio in that way. The blackout affected communications well outside the immediate area of power outage. The New Jersey–based internet operations of Advance Publications were among those knocked out by the blackout.

  5. Brownout (electricity) - Wikipedia

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    A switched-mode power supply will be affected if the brownout voltage is lower than the minimum input voltage of the power supply. As the input voltage falls, the current draw will increase to maintain the same output voltage and current, until such a point that the power supply malfunctions or its under-voltage protection kicks in and disables ...

  6. TV pickup - Wikipedia

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    TV pickups occur during breaks in popular television programmes and are a surge in demand caused by the switching on of millions of electric kettles to brew cups of tea or coffee. Kettles in the UK are particularly high powered, typically consuming 2.5–3.0 kW and create a very high peak demand on the electrical grid.

  7. Output power of an analog TV transmitter - Wikipedia

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    The large amount of energy that Sync Pulses use is largely independent of the measurement system and efficiency of the analogue TV transmitter (as most analogue transmitters have on average 75% efficiency). The transmission of FM audio (including Stereo subcarriers) is only overall the 3rd largest consumer of TV transmitter power.

  8. Powered speakers - Wikipedia

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    An active full-range loudspeaker. Powered speakers, also known as self-powered speakers and active speakers, are loudspeakers that have built-in amplifiers.Powered speakers are used in a range of settings, including in sound reinforcement systems (used at live music concerts), both for the main speakers facing the audience and the monitor speakers facing the performers; by DJs performing at ...

  9. Television - Wikipedia

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    A generic LCD TV, with speakers on either side of the screen. Liquid-crystal-display televisions (LCD TVs) are television sets that use liquid-crystal display technology to produce images. LCD televisions are much thinner and lighter than cathode-ray tube (CRTs) of similar display size and are available in much larger sizes (e.g., 90-inch ...