09-24-2008, 06:25 AM
I once lived in a loft in Boston, a former shoe factory. It had both AC and DC outlets. DC was good for bulbs, but not for electronics, they would be fried! I marked the DC outlets with florescent paint to remind me. The power generation plant was only 2 blocks away. DC doesn't travel far in the grid! DC bulbs seemed to last forever as they didn't have to deal with the continuous cycling of AC.