[time-nuts] Line Voltage - USA

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Mon Jan 2 18:14:33 UTC 2017


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In message <CAJ_qRvb6-79y99aFgAUowZjJcEUK4LWeAEHwDgRqNOsGQVzneQ at mail.gmail.com>
, Tim Shoppa writes:

>What modern loads are actually sensitive to high (say, +10 to +20%) line
>voltage?

In EU you're supposed to have 230V +/- 6% in your outlet.

The way this was arrived at was:

A lot of europe used 220V +/- 10% = [198..242] V

Brittain used 240V +/- 10% = [216..264] V

Take the average of the two, and use the low max and high min as limits

QED:  230V +/- 6% = [216..244]

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