However, since that approval, the JRC team has jacked up the voltage on them.

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This sets up a voltage, similar to that in a battery.

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He enters an electronics store and picks up a voltage stabilizer.

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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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Another group, led by William Ditto at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Francis Witkowski at the University of Alberta, is using a dye that lights up in response to voltage changes to map the heart's response.

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ABB's best trick is its ability to take electric current of any voltage and frequency, chop it up into tiny bits and reassemble it into the form needed.

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The bigger the difference in the electropositivity and electronegativity of the materials that make up a battery's electrodes, the bigger the voltage it can deliver.

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Power-saving techniques and voltage and frequency "slewing" will allow its chip to lower electricity consumption by up to 50%.

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