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I think day to day integration of voltages is worse. Not so much for gadgets since we have transformers for everything down to 5 volts, but anything else is a n

• kalleboo 14y ago
  Really? Aside from white goods, it seems most things these days are multi-voltage. And even then, it's still mainly North America that strays more than 10% from the standard http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Weltkarte_der_Netzspannungen_und_Netzfrequenzen.svg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Weltkarte_der_Netzspannung...
  • ralfd 14y ago
    Interesting effect: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f5/Weltkarte_der_Netzspannungen_und_Netzfrequenzen.svg http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f5/Weltkarte... Never cared about this svg file format, but how does it work? If I make a reload on the link the countries are drawn individually as the file is loaded (relatively slow network connection). Like a puzzle.
    • kalleboo 14y ago
      Try view source and you can see how it's built. Simplified, SVG could be described as "like HTML only with shapes".
  • joelhaasnoot 14y ago
    Ok, so it has gotten a little better, but having lived in close proximity to Americans in Africa and so buying their appliances second hand, etc, there were all to many cases of people accidentally switching plugs. PC Power supplies used to also be manually switcheable - no autodetect (atleast the ones we had access to in Africa), guessing that's changed. The dangerous examples were cords that didn't have the right end or had changed ends so that you could hook a 110V appliance to a 220 outlet.