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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 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