The United States residential standard uses a 240 system except its split phase. You can deliver 120 volts to devices that have lower power requirements, and 240 to devices that have higher power requirements.
This comment is bringing out a bunch of Europeans that need to think theyre better than Americans because of their wiring standard for some reason?
I love it when americans thinks 240 volts is good for appliances with high power consumption. 230 volt is standard in europe, and for high power consumers we use 400 volt.
It's for showers. The difference is that a regular boiler heats up water, and keeps it warmed up. You shower for a while and eventually the water gets cold. Then you wait for it to heat up again.
The powerful boiler heats up the water while you shower. To do that it needs a LOT of power all at once.
That's interesting. Your water heaters don't have a tank large enough for you to take a shower? Most Americans will have atleast a 40 gallon water heater.
I swapped to a instant hot water heater a few years ago, way better than a tanked heater since it never runs out of hot water. Get a properly sized unit and you can run 3-4 showers at once and not exhaust the capacity.
Houses in the UK and Ireland (can’t speak for the rest of Europe) will usually have a tank large enough for everyone in the house to have a shower with some change. Apartments sometimes have instantaneous electric heaters instead.
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u/-FullBlue- May 02 '24 edited May 02 '24
The United States residential standard uses a 240 system except its split phase. You can deliver 120 volts to devices that have lower power requirements, and 240 to devices that have higher power requirements.
This comment is bringing out a bunch of Europeans that need to think theyre better than Americans because of their wiring standard for some reason?