High voltage

The term high voltage usually means electrical energy at voltages high enough to inflict harm on living organisms. Equipment and conductors that carry high voltage warrant particular safety requirements and procedures. In certain industries, high voltage means voltage above a particular threshold (see below). High voltage is used in electrical power distribution, in cathode ray tubes, to generate X-rays and particle beams, to demonstrate arcing, for ignition, in photomultiplier tubes, and in high power amplifier vacuum tubes and other industrial and scientific applications.

Definition

The numerical definition of 'high voltage' depends on context. Two factors considered in classifying a voltage as "high voltage" are the possibility of causing a spark in air, and the danger of electric shock by contact or proximity. The definitions may refer to the voltage between two conductors of a system, or between any conductor and ground.

In electric power transmission engineering, high voltage is usually considered any voltage over approximately 35,000 volts. This is a classification based on the design of apparatus and insulation.

High Voltage (song)

Not to be confused with Danger! High Voltage

"High Voltage" is a song by Australian hard rock band AC/DC. It was first released in Australia as a single in July 1975, and it is the eighth track of their second Australian album T.N.T. The song was written by Angus Young, Malcolm Young and Bon Scott, and peaked at #48 on the UK Singles Chart in 1980.

Background

"High Voltage" shares its name with the band's first Australian and international albums. It is the ninth and final track on the international version, released in May 1976. "High Voltage" was also released as a single in the UK and various countries in Europe in 1976.

Although Phil Rudd is erroneously credited with recording the song, the drums were actually recorded by a session drummer Tony Currenti, not long after recording sessions for the debut album High Voltage.

"High Voltage" is one of AC/DC's most popular songs, and has been included on four of the band's five official live releases: If You Want Blood You've Got It (sung by Bon Scott, 1978), Live: 2 CD Collector's Edition (sung by Scott's replacement Brian Johnson, 1992), Live from the Atlantic Studios (Scott, 1977), and Let There Be Rock: The Movie (Scott, 1979) – the latter two being released in 1997 as part of the Bonfire box set.

High voltage (disambiguation)

High voltage refers to a voltage which is of great magnitude.

High voltage may also refer to:

Music

  • "High Voltage" (song), a 1975 AC/DC song
  • High Voltage (1975 album), a 1975 AC/DC album, released in Australia
  • High Voltage (1976 album), a 1976 AC/DC album, released internationally
  • High Voltage (Eddie Harris album), 1969
  • High Voltage (Emerson, Lake & Palmer album), 2010
  • High Voltage Festival, music festival presented by Classic Rock Magazine in 2010
  • "High Voltage", a Hybrid Theory song from the Hybrid Theory EP in 1999
  • "High Voltage (Remix)", a remixed version by Linkin Park from the "One Step Closer" single in 2000
  • High Voltage, the name that Bahamian band Baha Men were originally known as
  • Film

  • High Voltage (1929 film), an American film directed by Howard Higgin
  • High Voltage (1981 film), a Croatian film directed by Veljko Bulajić
  • High Voltage (1997 film)
  • Other

  • High level of a digital signal, also known as "logical 1"
  • High Voltage Software, an independent game development company
  • Podcasts:

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    PLAYLIST TIME:

    High Voltage

    by: Hybrid Theory

    Just do something to tell you who I am, ya know?
    Chorus x2
    It's high voltage you can't shake the shock
    Because nobody wants it to stop, check it out
    It's high voltage you can't shake the shock
    Because nobody wants it to stop, check it out
    I've been digging in the crates
    Ever since I was living in space
    Before the rat race
    Before monkeys had human traits
    Mastered numerology
    And bigbang theology
    Performed lobotomies
    With telekinetic psychology
    Invented the mic
    So I could start blessin it
    And chincheckin kids to make my point
    Like an impressionist
    Many men have tried to shake us
    But I'll twist my cords
    Through double helixes
    And show them what I'm made of
    I buckle knees like leg braces
    Cast the spell of instrumental-ness
    And all of the emcees that hate us
    So try on
    Leave you without a shoulder to cry on
    From now to infinity
    Let icons be bygones
    I fire bomb
    Ghostly notes haunt this
    I've tried threats
    But moved on to a promise
    I stomp shit
    With or without an accomplice
    Mix media
    The stamp of approval is on this
    Chorus
    Akira
    Put a kink in the backbones
    Of clones with microphones
    Never satisfy my rhyme jones
    Spraying bright day
    Over what you might say
    Blood type krylon technicolor type A
    On highways write with road rage
    On pages of wind
    And cages of tin
    That bounce all around
    Surround sound
    Devouring the scene
    Subliminal gangrene paintings
    Overall the same things
    Sing song karaoke copy madness
    Break bones verbally
    With sticks and stone tactics
    Fourth dimension
    Combat convention
    Write rhymes at ease
    While the tracks stand at attention
    Attention
    Meant to put you away
    With the pencil, pistol, official
    16 line rhyme missile
    While you risk your all
    I pick out of your flaws
    Spin, rah blah blah blah
    You can say you saw




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