Power transmission (was: ANSI and NIST)

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From: Markus Kuhn
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1992 11:08

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atkinson@itd.nrl.navy.mil (Randall Atkinson) writes:

>Not quite right --
[...]
>      Also, IEEE standards are world-wide rather than just being for
>the US, though the power transmission specs do tend to be North
>American conventions of 120 VAC, 60 Hz rather than the European
>conventions of 220 VAC, 50 Hz.

Not quite right -- :-)

The new power standard for Europe (I forgot the precise name of the document)
is now 230 VAC. Previously, there have been several voltages around 220-235 V.

Germany is changing at the moment from 220 V to 230 V and we have been told that
this won't have any consequences for our hardware ...

Markus

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