Keep in mind that excepting North America, only (part of) Japan uses a lower voltage. In the US (residential) system, no conductor is ever over about 160v peak-to-peak with respect to ground, whereas in NZ/EU you are getting over 300v P-P, which is arguably 4 times more lethal. I'd definitely want everything protected by GFCI/RCD if I had those voltages everywhere.
On Mon, Mar 11, 2024 at 10:25 AM EV List Lackey via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: > On 10 Mar 2024 at 23:41, (-Phil-) via EV wrote: > > > Based on what I know, [the US NEC is] one of the most rigorous codes in > > the world. > > Agreed. I've seen some ... interesting ... wiring practices elsewhere, > including Spain, Italy, France, Canary Islands, Puerto Rico, and South > Korea. > > Some of them look like old USA practices. Example: junction boxes aren't > usually used for surface mounted luminaires in France. The cable or smurf > tubing emerges from the ceiling or wall. > > I've seen single conductors run through ceramic cleats on the ceiling > surface in South Korea, similar to early 20th century US wiring. It > appeared > to be a recent installation. > > Service capacities are also lower. A typical western EU service will be > 6kW > or 12kW, a size the US hasn't seen in probably 70 years. Spain has a lot > of > 3kW services. I'm sure that that's a problem for EV home charging there. > > On the other hand, as Bill says about NZ, in most (all?) western EU > nations, > the whole house is GFI (RCD) protected at 30ma leakage current. > > David Roden, EVDL moderator & general lackey > > To reach me, don't reply to this message; I won't get it. Use my > offlist address here : http://evdl.org/help/index.html#supt > > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > > Interpreter: One who enables two persons of different languages > to understand each other by repeating to each what it would have > been to the interpreter's advantage for the other to have said. > > -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary" > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > > _______________________________________________ > Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org > No other addresses in TO and CC fields > HELP: http://www.evdl.org/help/ > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20240311/547aeff3/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org No other addresses in TO and CC fields HELP: http://www.evdl.org/help/
