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Re: Electric appliances help
Originally Posted by steveq
(Post 12330386)
.... It's no different to the reason that the UK has a crap rail gauge, and continental freight has to be reloaded or won't fit through tunnels etc - not because of the stupidity of our engineers, but that we were the first ones.
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Re: Electric appliances help
Originally Posted by uk_grenada
(Post 12330314)
Not true of braun/oral b toothbrushes. Generally - if it has an inline transformer get the magnifying glass out and so ling as it says input - 110-240 volts or a wider range, you are fine, just get a physical adapter plug.
No inline transformer box but its a small power usage device [no heating, cooling, big motors involved] check its rating plate for the same info. Otherwise dont risk it, buy a new one in your destination. In truth goung from 240 to 110 IN ERROR is likely to just have a sulking thing, but it can burn out and burn you out... The other way 110 to 220 is dangerous fullstop... Nb the background is interesting, americans werent to be trusted with 220, far tooo dangerous for them, the result is things like flexible cables have to be twice as thick - quite dumb really. I see there used to be a multi voltage charger. No longer available on Amazon. Maybe the new ones are all dual voltage. https://www.amazon.com/Braun-4725-62...ews/B000PJA1U0 |
Re: Electric appliances help
Originally Posted by durham_lad
(Post 12330256)
If the voltage is compatible as explained above your Apple TV box should work fine. Not sure about the Kodie box in terms of content. My Apple TV box works great in both countries but my Roku did not like having an overseas IP (not being in the USA) and the apps and content on it did not work well so I ended up ditching it once back in the U.K.
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Re: Electric appliances help
We are doing our best to sell off many of the kitchen appliances, the TV, printer, drills and sanders etc.
Seems people want these things for nothing though, it's hard to shift them, when you can buy new so cheap these days. |
Re: Electric appliances help
Originally Posted by Stevie P
(Post 12330420)
We are doing our best to sell off many of the kitchen appliances, the TV, printer, drills and sanders etc.
Seems people want these things for nothing though, it's hard to shift them, when you can buy new so cheap these days. |
Re: Electric appliances help
Originally Posted by steveq
(Post 12330386)
That's somewhat racist.
The US AC distribution system was the first (just) and certainly the most developed standards wise for many years. The Americans had standardised things like plugs and sockets, and switches years before the UK got round to even a standard voltage system - and I remember the mixing of outlets with Wirelex and modern 13 A systems, as well as DC. Back at the turn of the 19th to the 20th century, who would have predicted electric appliances in every home, consuming several kW, demanding high voltages and lower currents ? Its no different to the reason that the UK has a crap rail gauge, and continental freight has to be reloaded or won't fit through tunnels etc - not because of the stupidity of our engineers, but that we were the first ones. Americans I'm terribly sorry but your system is rubbish, Britain had distributed AC power a long time before the Americans, you had a problem historically in that your main protagonist was into DC, demonstrated for things like killing elephants. |
Re: Electric appliances help
All UK homes built now have to be fitted with earth leakage circuit breaker's on all circuits which means that actually you can't hurt yourself with power anymore regardless of what you do. When is America going to follow?
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Re: Electric appliances help
Originally Posted by uk_grenada
(Post 12330639)
Nope sorry that's just not true, ever heard of euro tunnel ?
Americans I'm terribly sorry but your system is rubbish, Britain had distributed AC power a long time before the Americans, you had a problem historically in that your main protagonist was into DC, demonstrated for things like killing elephants. Its true though that AC was pioneered in the UK. S z de Ferranti was a very early pioneer with Deptford in 1889 (Designed the whole system, at 21 years old !!!), and the FIRST centrally distributed AC system in the world, it was Westinghouse in Pittsburgh who was the pioneers of AC on the large scale, and very, very soon after Ferranti - so its really not fair to say that the War of the Currents delayed them very much either - Edison lost control of the company he founded as a result of the evident superiority of the AC system |
Re: Electric appliances help
Originally Posted by uk_grenada
(Post 12330640)
All UK homes built now have to be fitted with earth leakage circuit breaker's on all circuits which means that actually you can't hurt yourself with power anymore regardless of what you do. When is America going to follow?
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Re: Electric appliances help
Breakers are not the same thing as earth leakage circuit breaker's, breaker is just like a reusable fuse, and there's a question of how fast it operates where as an earth leakage circuit breaker protects you against energy issues with the three wires [or 7 if its 3 phase] involved in the system and operates in milliseconds, typically with an ELCB you can pick up the positive and negative bare cables and not feel a thing.
Power distribution is also quite different, i have a friend in the uk who was sort of the 'wichita lineman' in his job, High tension lines in the UK operate at between one third and 2/3 of 1,000,000 V, I believe in America it somewhere different but I have no clue whether the one is superior to the other. I know we tend to use more tunnels for it. |
Re: Electric appliances help
Re The rail gauge, trains move between all European countries through the channel tunnel so there is no issue they will run the same. The traction i.e. the actual engines - not the wagons - do get changed but that's as much to do with Green and othrr technical considerations as anything else, E.g. automatic signaling.
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Re: Electric appliances help
Originally Posted by uk_grenada
(Post 12330653)
Breakers are not the same thing as earth leakage circuit breaker's, breaker is just like a reusable fuse, and there's a question of how fast it operates where as an earth leakage circuit breaker protects you against energy issues with the three wires [or 7 if its 3 phase] involved in the system and operates in milliseconds, typically with an ELCB you can pick up the positive and negative bare cables and not feel a thing.
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Re: Electric appliances help
Originally Posted by uk_grenada
(Post 12330654)
Re The rail gauge, trains move between all European countries through the channel tunnel so there is no issue they will run the same.
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Re: Electric appliances help
Originally Posted by Pulaski
(Post 12330657)
"Loading guage" is different from "track guage", which is the well known 4' 8½". In other words European trains are "bigger" to the extent that they can't run on "standard", unmodified British tracks, not because of the rails but because of the curves and the overhang of the wagons and carriages.
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Re: Electric appliances help
Originally Posted by uk_grenada
(Post 12330659)
But they do, my mothers house near london is near a line that has french limestone [for cement production i think] and polish coal trains several times a day.
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