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| ABC News posted a story re: Jacked Mains Voltage is increasing power bills |
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| LapTop006:
--- Quote from: james_s on November 08, 2018, 06:11:31 am ---I have to wonder how much electricity costs and how much he's using in order to get an extra $1200 a year. $1200 is significantly more than I spend on electricity a year in total! --- End quote --- AU$1200 a year is a bit less than what I pay for power in Sydney despite electric cooking, hot water, and an old fridge that probably wastes a few kilowatt hours a day (no aircon though). Roughly a quarter of my bill is the fixed charge, the rest ~9kWh/day usage (31c per kWh). Probably time to do a plan comparison again. |
| Doctorandus_P:
Is that: https://www.abc.net.au/news a legit site which blundered or is it a fake news site? :-// I do feel sad for the guy which solar panel installation shuts down because of over voltage, but my first question would be if it is the right system and rated for Australian Mains voltage instead of the Cheapes Chinesium. If they all start adding transformers in the way Big Clive suggests, this wont happen, but Australia has lots of sun and everybody's solar panels pushing more voltage onto the mains could become a big problem if enough people start doing this. Worldwide unified mains Voltage (and frequency and plugs) is a good thing. The world is just getting too small for all this shit. Even in the Americans, where inches are still being used, it seems that split phase transformers to upp the nominal 110Vac to somewhat near the worldwide more common 230Vac seems to become more common. Edit: Glanced at some random articles on that ABC news site and it does not seem to be much better than those notoriously bad Brittisch pulp news sites. |
| brucehoult:
--- Quote from: Doctorandus_P on February 13, 2019, 04:48:57 pm ---Worldwide unified mains Voltage (and frequency and plugs) is a good thing. The world is just getting too small for all this shit. Even in the Americans, where inches are still being used, it seems that split phase transformers to upp the nominal 110Vac to somewhat near the worldwide more common 230Vac seems to become more common. --- End quote --- I've heard even the yanks run things like ovens and clothes dryers off 230, so it must be generally available in homes. I'm in the process of moving there, and wondering whether I could get that run to a few NZ/Aus style sockets. For a decent electric kettle, if nothing else. |
| vk6zgo:
--- Quote from: brucehoult on February 13, 2019, 11:25:30 pm --- --- Quote from: Doctorandus_P on February 13, 2019, 04:48:57 pm ---Worldwide unified mains Voltage (and frequency and plugs) is a good thing. The world is just getting too small for all this shit. Even in the Americans, where inches are still being used, it seems that split phase transformers to upp the nominal 110Vac to somewhat near the worldwide more common 230Vac seems to become more common. --- End quote --- I've heard even the yanks run things like ovens and clothes dryers off 230, so it must be generally available in homes. I'm in the process of moving there, and wondering whether I could get that run to a few NZ/Aus style sockets. For a decent electric kettle, if nothing else. --- End quote --- Locally approved 240v sockets are available in the USA. The plugs are a bit fiddly to connect compared to Oz ones, though (madly over engineered). |
| oPossum:
--- Quote from: brucehoult on February 13, 2019, 11:25:30 pm ---I've heard even the yanks run things like ovens and clothes dryers off 230, so it must be generally available in homes. I'm in the process of moving there, and wondering whether I could get that run to a few NZ/Aus style sockets. For a decent electric kettle, if nothing else. --- End quote --- 240V is available in almost every home in the USA. Has been for a long time. The main power feed is 240V split phase, so 120V and 240V are both available. 240V in the kitchen isn't common, but an electrician could take care of that for you. There are several standard 240V plugs and sockets from 15A to 50A. |
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