Meal prep - eviltoast
  • Ross_audio@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    Due to a quirk of unifying 2 standards, Europe and the UK, the range is 216.2 volts to 253.0 volts.

    That encompasses infrastructure built to a tighter tolerance around 220V in Europe and infrastructure built to a tighter tolerance around 240V in the UK (and Australia).

    We expect 3150W out of a kettle most of the time. Our heaters will say 3kW.

    Usually you’ll find a few volts over 240 out of our outlets and that’s to design spec.

    • dan@upvote.au
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      10 days ago

      Thanks for the info! I’ve never actually lived in the UK so I was just guessing based on what I’ve read online.

      I was going to use Australia as an example (since I was born there) but standard outlets in Australia are only 10A so they’re not quite as powerful as the UK ones :). There’s 15A outlets but they’re not very common.