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Central/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
by troad 7mo ago
Central/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.)