Re: PC Transporter and Drives

[russotto@wanda.vf.pond.com (Matthew T. Russotto)]

In article <PKu66.51283$xW4.410750@news-server.bigpond.net.au>,
Simon Biber <simon@basilisk2.cjb.net> wrote:
}Are you saying you use both 110 V and 220 V supplies in the same country?
}That's very dangerous.

We have 110, 220, 240 (three-phase), 208, 480 (three phase), 288, and
probably a number of others.  No danger as a result, because they use
_VERY_ different plugs.  Nearly all residential outlets will be 110,
with 220 reserved for a dryer and perhaps the oven, and also the HVAC
(usually direct-wired rather than plugged in).  288 is used for
commercial lighting (cheaper ballasts for fluoresents), 480 is used
for some commercial motors.
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Matthew T. Russotto                                russotto@pond.com
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