New focus Sharyland Utilities built a high-voltage line to connect Texas with Mexico's power grid.

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With the higher voltage line, a full charge can be achieved in six hours.

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Substations and transformer boxes eventually reduce the power to the 110 volts that toast your muffin in the morning, but the electrical noise on a high-voltage line can destroy data signals immediately.

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Wiens, 27, was injured in 2008 when he was volunteering at his church and his head got too close to a high-voltage power line.

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It fell onto the main north-south high voltage power transmission line.

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To send power miles away without huge line losses demanded that electricity be stepped up to a high voltage, then stepped down again at the receiving end.

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Local controllers (X-NET) gather this information and deliver to a web-controller via GPRS. The overhead sensors are line powered, and the X-NET Controller can be powered by a low voltage supply or a solar panel.

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