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> heck, only Japan is 110V besides the US as far as I know Japan is an oddball by being 100V. US is 120 and that extends pretty far south (and north). https:
by Scoundreller 7mo ago
> heck, only Japan is 110V besides the US as far as I know
Japan is an oddball by being 100V.
US is 120 and that extends pretty far south (and north).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mains_electricity_by_country https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mains_electricity_by_country
I’m semi amazed motor vehicles are as standard as they are with 12V and the same socket worldwide. I guess the tobacco industry is a great unifier.
- troad 7mo agoCentral/South America has a lot of 100-130 V too, I believe, but I don't have direct personal experience. I find the standard voltages pretty interesting. The 230 V standard, for example, is mostly a lie. In reality, Britain and former British colonies tend to run on 240 V, and continental Europe/Asia/Africa tends to run on 220 V. The 230 V standard includes wide enough tolerances so that no one needed to actually change anything. I've never actually seen 230 V, the supposed standard, in real life.
- Scoundreller 7mo agoBe careful in Montserrat: US plugs but UK voltage (!)
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- troad 7mo agoWith tidbits like that, you're my kind of person
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- iggldiggl 6mo ago> I've never actually seen 230 V, the supposed standard, in real life. I've just measured the voltage in a socket my home (Germany) and the multimeter says 231 V. (And it's nighttime, so no solar generation from houses in the neighbourhood potentially distorting the local grid.)
- sidewndr46 7mo agoThe US is most definitely 110 VAC at the outlet level for small appliances. It's not uncommon to see as high as 126 VAC however. NATO compliant vehicles are 24 volt as far as I know