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this plug doesn't have the little holes (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

While the US system gets called 110/220, my house actually puts out ~242v. Right now I have a smart plug saying 121.5v.

And since you mentioned the word "plugs", here are our 220 15a and 20a outlets.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

120/240 is the nominal voltage in North America. 110/220 is archaic/colloquial/wrong.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

And the standard includes a plus or minus that I don’t remember: it’s unreasonable to expect an exact voltage and everything is built with that in mind