Re: [newbie] Complete failure (Now completely OT)

2003-12-09 Thread magnet 
On Monday 08 Dec 2003 7:18 pm, Alan Dunford wrote:
 On Monday 08 Dec 2003 6:43 pm, Richard Urwin wrote:
  On Monday 08 Dec 2003 8:19 am, John Richard Smith wrote:
   UK domestic is 240v can vary between 230/250 v(meaning it's allowed)
   but I have never experienced in my lifetime much variation from 240v
   50cycles/min.

 Cycles per second ?

Ewww, that answer hertz ;-)


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Re: [newbie] Complete failure (Now completely OT)

2003-12-08 Thread Richard Urwin 
On Monday 08 Dec 2003 8:19 am, John Richard Smith wrote:
 UK domestic is 240v can vary between 230/250 v(meaning it's allowed) but
 I have never experienced in my lifetime much variation from 240v
 50cycles/min.

Yep, 240V, I just measured it (239V at this moment.) I strangely remembered 
that it had been shifted down closer to the EU levels.

 UK industrial is mainly 480v 3 phase, that is all the heavy stuff,
 everything else is single phase 240v like domestic.

pedantic note: 440V, it's 120 degrees out of phase, not 180.

That'll teach me to post off the top of my head. My fuses are 2x5A (lights), 
2x30A (sockets) and 1x15A (water heater.) The oven is only 2.7kW, so it's on 
the normal ring. I misremembered the big sealed fuse too, it's 100A.

Remember that in the US, the lower voltage means you will need over twice the 
current for the same power. Here 13A is 3.12kW, over there it would have to 
be 28.36A for the same power.

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Re: [newbie] Complete failure (Now completely OT)

2003-12-08 Thread Alan Dunford 
On Monday 08 Dec 2003 6:43 pm, Richard Urwin wrote:
 On Monday 08 Dec 2003 8:19 am, John Richard Smith wrote:
  UK domestic is 240v can vary between 230/250 v(meaning it's allowed) but
  I have never experienced in my lifetime much variation from 240v
  50cycles/min.

Cycles per second ?

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