I’m far from being a EU skeptic or opponent, but they seem to go overboard sometimes. A real story, as it happened to me.
I was somewhere in Europe many, many years ago, and had to go into building undergoing renovations. I was a member of the team setting up the new office.
I needed to have a quick look at something that was on the wall, about 8 feet above ground level, inside one of the offices. There was a step ladder near by, they are slightly different than the ones in North America… safety features, I was told. I reached for the step ladder. Almost immediately, a man comes out of nowhere, and asks me if I had completed the step ladder course. Pardon me, I said. He went on to say that every person on-site must complete a half-day course on how to use a step ladder.
If that was not enough, after completing the course, I had to make sure to use a step ladder that had been inspected that day, by checking the inspector’s initials in the step ladder’s logbook. Each step ladder had its own logbook.
I asked who had come up with all those rules? You guessed it, Brussels.
After that brief discussion, I grabbed a chair, stepped on it, checked what I wanted to check, and left.
I wonder if they introduced a chair course after that.
It sounded so much of an exaggeration, that to this day I think they may have tried to pull my leg. I honestly don’t know.
Yeah i’m not sure how i would connect my induction cooking plate with 3.6 kW over there.
I guess you would have to connect it permanently like a stove and not just plug it in
Bought a single plate with that power and it’s just fantastic.
On the other hand if i use the good pan i have to be really careful because it absorbs the induction better than the pots i usually put on there.
In North America, even Stoves (known as CookTop or Cooking Range) are not connected permanently, but are plugged into wall socket. These two appliances use 240V supply. Almost every household has twin-voltage service: 120V for lighting and general wall outlets (15A) and 240V for Cooking Range and Cloths Dryer.
TYPICAL HOUSE WIRING HAS BOTH THE 240 V AND 120V SERVICE
I wish we adopted 230V, but the chance of that happening is zero.
As for the fear that 230V, under normal circumstances and uses, is dangerous to consumers, I don’t think so. This is something the EU would have addressed a long time ago. They ‘regulate’ a lot of BS, no way they would let this go unchecked.
To the best of my knowledge the normal wiring is around 15amps so half the voltage halves the wattage so best it can do is around 1500W against 3KW for UK.
I think their high power stuff like cookers take a twin 110V input so equals UK.
Maybe you will be able to find which one do you need from these lists. I am honestly wondering if I can use these alternatives for online pet supplies that I am working on, maybe I can try it on bark collar page to see if it will work.
Tom Scott did a good video on the British plug. The voltage in the UK is 230V -6% +10%. In most of the rest of the EU it’s 230V -10% +6%. So EU kit is designed to accept 230V +/- 10%. My UPS tells me here in the UK tonight I have 249 of the finest British root mean square volts at my disposal.
Sorry for picking up this old thread, but it’s what i am planning to do.
I would like to setup a second site and replace my current site with a new PI 4.
Shall i start with a fresh image and installation or shall/can i simply use the existing install from my 3B? Will it work directly on a 4 as well?
After that swap i would then setup the second site on the existing 3B
Because the UK system (used in Australia too) has a switch by the receptacle and a fuse inside the plug itself. Nobody in the world does that. Also UK has a 13A circuit breaker and a “loop” circuit inside the houses, that nobody else has (other countries use a radial distribution inside the house.
The EU plugs can be very small (non-grounded version), but those can carry only 2.5A:
True except the “ring” is protected by a 32A circuit breaker which protects the ring itself.
The flex to the appliance is protected by the fuse in the plug.
I was just trying to point that the 230V has nothing to do with the socket size.
And… it depends. The wire is sized only 2/3 of the capacity and that’s why it can happen to be overloaded. For every other electrical engineer in the world that’s just asking for trouble.
This system it was designed after WWII (by a female engineer), to save on copper wiring. Used to be 30A (similar with US standard size) but now is “harmonized” with EU at 32A - EU that doesn’t have a ring system!
