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> Uk is 240V 13A which is a bit more powerful that the 110 v Us system. Actually UK is 230V and North America is 120V. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mains_ele

• coroxout 11y ago
  UK is nominally 230V to standardise with the rest of Europe but actually 240V as it always was: "Following voltage harmonisation, electricity supplies within the European Union are now nominally 230 V ±10% at 50 Hz.[6] For a transition period (1995–2008), countries that had previously used 220 V changed to a narrower asymmetric tolerance range of 230 V +6%/−10% and those (like the UK) that had previously used 240 V changed to 230 V +10%/−6%.[7] No change in voltage is required by either system as both 220 V and 240 V fall within the lower 230 V tolerance bands (230 V ±10%)." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mains_electricity#Standardisation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mains_electricity#Standardisat... I don't know if 240V is actually being phased out now it's post-2008 but the mains of everywhere I've lived since 2008 has definitely still been 240V.