220 volts, 50 hz motor on 240 volts, 60 hz

[Besoeker3]

Yes. Sometimes I feel that we (Americans) don't fully appreciate just how good we have it. I hear people here whine and complain because their power went down for a few hours in a storm. But also, you can move from California to New York and plug in your appliances without giving a thought as to whether or not they will work.

It might interest you that when we lived at our previous we had no power interruptions in our twelve years there. We are in a new house and have been for nearly three years now. I did have one interruption but that was planned by the power company beforehand. That was about ten minutes.

Yes, I know it is just UK and the population just 60 million.

 

[kwired]

It might interest you that when we lived at our previous we had no power interruptions in our twelve years there. We are in a new house and have been for nearly three years now. I did have one interruption but that was planned by the power company beforehand. That was about ten minutes.

Yes, I know it is just UK and the population just 60 million.

That's all? Less than 5k population here and have had many outages in about 20 years. Only twice was is for more than a few hours though.

There are miles of lines serving fairly sparse population. Majority of load on those lines is for farmers and amount used by dwellings is fairly minimal in comparison, though the farm demand is somewhat seasonal when peak demand occurs.

 

[Besoeker3]

That's all? Less than 5k population here and have had many outages in about 20 years. Only twice was is for more than a few hours though.

There are miles of lines serving fairly sparse population. Majority of load on those lines is for farmers and amount used by dwellings is fairly minimal in comparison, though the farm demand is somewhat seasonal when peak demand occurs.

Yes, excuse my humour - the British spelling.............
A lot of the supplies here underground. There are HV transmission lines at 132V and some 400kV. But there is one here, the only one I know of, has wooden poles. I don't know what the voltage is but I guess 3.3 kV - and it may defunct now anyway.