Re:Why does the USA use 110V and UK use 230-240V?
by ponector on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @03:48PM
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While in Europe every regular socket has 230V but induction has 400V with 5-wired connection. It is amazing how fast it can boil water!
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Re:Why does the USA use 110V and UK use 230-240V?
by sbradford26 on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @04:40PM
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Yes European ones will run on higher voltage but largely they are equally powerful.
US Version: https://www.bosch-home.com/us/productslist/cooking-baking/co...
UK Version: https://www.bosch-home.co.uk/product-list/cooking-baking/hob...
Largely they have the same power output. While the total power available is actually higher for the US version at 12kW versus 11.1 kW for the UK version. That is because the US version needs to be on a 50 amp 240v circuit versus the max 16 amp circuit for the UK version.
Even this Bosch one: https://www.bosch-home.co.uk/product-list/cooking-baking/hob... Which clearly calls out 400v 3 phase has a lower power output at 7.4 kW.
Re:Why does the USA use 110V and UK use 230-240V?
by bluGill on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @03:58PM
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Power = V*A. You can get any given power output out of any voltage by following the formula. The number of wires is not a factor at all. Number of wires and voltage is a factor in cost of install of course, but nothing else.