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World Map of Mains Voltages and Frequencies (lemmy.ca)

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[–] Kenny2999@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I member the switch to 230v. There was a buzz and then nothing.

[–] Theoriginalthon@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

Well the tolerance is +10% -6%, so that's 253-216v

[–] pHr34kY@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I swear Australia just did it quietly. We could have done with that extra juice to charge our cars faster.

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 2 points 2 days ago

IIRC, they loosened the tolerance and lowered the nominal voltage from generators to be around 235, to provide more leeway for electricity fed in from domestic solar panels without tripping circuit breakers.