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Phil Allison wrote:
Dave Plowman (Nutcase Moron) wrote:

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Obviously. You both seem to have missed the part where he says he's
looking to buy from markets which use ~220v gear including the UK.

The UK is 240v. Older equipment designed for 220v will very likely go bang
on 240v. Unless the mains transformer has a 240v tapping.


** India is a 230VAC country, so is the UK and Australia, despite the supply being 240VAC at most locations.


230v here was an EU harmonisation. So that equipment made afterwards had
to be suitable for the spread across the EU. But the voltage didn't change
in the UK, even although the specification did. For many things it is OK -
but tungsten lamps have either their brightness and or life altered if not
run at the voltage they are designed for.

220v sounds very like a US etc standard.

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