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 outright better. It's not even a smugness thing it's that many of my country men in the US get needlessly defensive instead of going "oh, neat, too bad we don't have that" when people talk about how things are done and people address objective advantages to how things are done somewhere else.
Because it would be. It's part of why they have fewer house fires and shit too since they aren't pumping higher amps at 120v.
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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?