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My car charger can boil water really fast [video]

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77 points zdw | 1 comments | 28 Nov 25 02:58 UTC | HN request time: 0.249s | source
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silexia ◴[28 Nov 25 05:47 UTC] No.46075861[source]▶
I am a farmer with giant water pumps and center pivots that run on 3 phase 480 volt power. One of my pumps has 85 horsepower. I wonder if I could wire up some sort of custom made tea kettle and get water to boil in five seconds?
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1. ahartmetz ◴[07 Dec 25 13:48 UTC] No.46181668[source]▶
There is something like that in the original video - running a 120 V kettle at 240 V makes it boil four times as fast. But only a few times.