In message <020D0D79F6644B7F84CFED34C7D38DBF@Pete97219Compaq>, dated
Tue, 20 Mar 2012, Pete Perkins <[email protected]> writes:
As an outsider my recollection is that the decision to move from
220V in Continental Europe and 240V in the UK was enthusiastically
voted in.
Not by Britain; we resisted for several years before a certain
government official capitulated.
The implementatin was scheduled to be a one volt change per year
with both partine coming together after 10 years with a harmonized 220V
everywhere.
That simply isn't practicable and I don't see any reason to do it.
The Continental Europeean change seemed to proceed smoothly. I
don't know of any issues. The UK change seemed in trouble from the
beginning; uncertainty reigned. After a couple of years the UK gave up
trying and abandoned the agreement to change the voltage.
So now the Euro voltage is 230V everywhere except in the UK
which is
still 240V.
Well, it's within 230 V +10 % most of the time in most places, but only
a relatively few supplies were actually reduced: these were supplies to
long rural feeders, where the voltage near the substation was high.
I don't think there is any chance of the tolerance going back to +/-6%.
It would be expensive and probably not bring any significant advantages.
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