This Voltage Stabilizer was found in a rural village. It is similar to a US surge protector but this will handle very long periods and high voltage excursions which occurs often in India when the power returns. It is common for the voltage to double for seconds. Naturally this is a problem because the spikes literally burn the electronics, e.g. radios, fans. For example: one of the villages had 20 TV's burn out at once when a surge occurred. It was doubly frustrating for the villagers because all the village men were watching a major soccer tournament.
This will be the last blog for a few days. We leave tonight for a ten hour bus ride to Belgaum where we will be visiting three small villages with no electricity - hence no Internet.
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