Re:Why does the USA use 110V and UK use 230-240V?
by vel0city on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @11:11AM
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For the induction cooktop, there's circuitry to drive the induction system, which then creates magnetic fields, which then interacts with the metal pot, which gets hot and heats the water on one side while radiating heat into the air on the other. There's a lot of stages for losses here.
On an electric kettle, there's just a heating element, often directly bathed in the hot water.
There's absolutely less losses with the electric kettle, so for a 3kW kettle and a 3kW induction cooktop the kettle is slightly more efficient. Slightly.
For example this: https://www.emag.ro/plita-cu-inductie-aeg-hob-hood-60-cm-ikb... (in the EU), at max power can supposedly reach 7.3kW.
Edit: Checked per element, max 3.7k, more than enough anyway.