What are its species water heater is seen hanging in the streets of America? That is quite strange is not it? Americans use electricity at 110 volts, unlike us who are 230Volts (For once we do more than them, Yay!) The concern with the 110 volts that is it must be transported to the nearest place where it will be used. The heater is a strange individual current transformer, and it filled the same role as our little neighborhood of cabins EDF France: turning a handful of chestnuts in a small handful of chestnuts usable by domestic equipment.
In the end, it gives organizations sometimes enough electric folk. I would not be too post! You surprise me after in American movies there has flashes of crazy ... :-)
For your personal culture and the advantages / disadvantages of the 110 or 230 volts, I will conclude with a minute optional Scientist blog: an excerpt from wikipedia sacrosanct (from http : / / fr.wikipedia.org / wiki / électricité_domestique ) to which I've added a few notes:
"The technology of generating and distributing electric current alternative was invented by Nicolas Tesla in the nineteenth century e (Ed.: Hi're the Tesla? Small, he had to pick up her school!) . He estimated that 60 Hz was the frequency that achieves the best performance for AC generators. He preferred the voltage of 240 V, the better to transport over long distances. Thomas Edison developed parallel systems with DC to 110 V he considered to be safer (note: the Yanks take less of chestnuts when they touch the plug) .
In continental Europe, the German company AEG, which has introduced the first service of power generation has opted for the 50 Hz Boasting a near monopoly, it could spread this standard on the continent. In Britain, many frequencies (including 25 Hz, 40 Hz and DC) have cohabited (Ed.: ah these Britons, has always done the heavy in Europe.) and only after World War II that the 50 Hz spread.
Initially, the voltage of 110 V was widespread Europe, like Japan or the United States today. It was decided in the course of the twentieth century e (early 1960 for France) to double the tension.
Today, the value of the voltage distribution is due more to tradition than technical considerations. In theory, a distribution system of 240 V will require drivers to carry a thinner given power. That is why incandescent lamps for 120 V are more successful than those operating at 240 V, while the heaters may use finer conductors at 240 V. "
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