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Re: UK Voltage
At 13:51 15/03/2002 +0000, Jonathan Bradshaw wrote:
>I've got a nice rackmount APC SmartUPS 1400 (thanks to eBay) and late
last
>night I noticed a warning light. Turns out it had started clamping the
>voltage due to it hitting 253V AC. This morning it seems around 248V.
>
>Coming from the US, a UPS is a near essential in the number of
"brownouts"
>and power failures that happen -- especially during the harsh winters
of
>the midwest :-)
>
>I was slightly suprised to see the voltage level since I had thought UK
>had moved down from 240 and Europe had moved up to provide a european
230V
>standard?
Voltage didn't change anywhere....just the spec, now single spec across
euroland!! Typical Euro nonsense.
Now spec is something like 230V +/- 10%
This makes sense as then 253V would be a cutoff point which is what your
UPS is doing.
Martin
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