[Gllug] OT: European Power

[Xander D Harkness]

Dave wrote:

> andy at mac1systems.com wrote:
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>> I think we are all going 230v soon anyway, resulting in considerable
>> reduction in the life of bulbs and other devices designed to run at 
>> 240v!!
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> We already have it - the specification/tolerances were changed so that 
> nominal voltage across europe is harmonised to 230v - previous 
> national nominal voltages are within the new spec/tolerances. The 
> voltage you receive remains unchanged from before (see plenty of 
> discussions in uk.d-i-y and cam.misc about this). 

The funny thing for me is that 60% of the time the voltage level on my 
UPS shows 'high'.

I have been thinking about getting a digital voltage meter to monitor 
it. :-)

Kind regards
Xander

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> Dave
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