[Randy Bassham]

I've got an RCA line voltage monitor and mine runs between 110 and 125 depending on the time of day, I am out in a rural area. Actually the high voltage transmission lines was Nikola Tesla's idea and he couldn't get Edison to see the superiority in the AC system. George Westinghouse was forward thinking enough to see the possibilities in Tesla's system and bought the rights, IIRC he paid several million dollars and then was to pay a royalty of $1.00 per horsepower. Later when Westinghouse was trying to get funding his bankers wouldn't put up funds while the royalty clause was in force. Westinghouse went to Tesla and explained the situation, Tesla was so grateful that Westinghouse had believed in him and his system that he tore up the contract and gave it to Westinghouse. The history of the technology we use today has always been fascinating to me.