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Fix the voltage campaign (Australia)
tooki:
--- Quote from: tom66 on January 12, 2021, 08:49:16 am ---To replace it we bought a Miele, it was about 3x as expensive as the Zanussi and had a lower power rating. It:
- cleans better
- runs quieter
- doesn't produce as much dust out the back as it seems to suck up
- so far doesn't smell of burnt brushes
Most of my home is now full of appliances from manufacturers I have trust in because I have repaired similar devices in my travels. I do not get bitten twice.
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I wish I had a justification to buy a Miele vacuum, but my Siemens one is still going strong and I still have a bunch of bags for it... :p
james_s:
My aunt has a Miele that she has been happy with, it cost a fortune when she bought it though, it's one of those "exotic" European brands in the US. We have a Dyson upright that my partner bought on sale back before I met her, it's actually quite good, it's the only bagless vacuum I've used that worked worth a crap, most of them need to have the bin constantly emptied and fiddled with, this one you can run until it's filled up to the line and it keeps right on sucking.
sibeen:
--- Quote from: GlennSprigg on January 12, 2021, 01:55:36 pm ---
We call this a M.E.N. link,
which means Mains-Earth-Neutral. Now partially answering your question....
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Just a quick correction, MEN = Multiple Earth Neutral.
Every house has one so there is multiple earth neutral connections on the output of each transformer.
james_s:
What is a multiple earth neutral? That's not a term I'm familiar with, if we have it we probably call it something else here.
VK3DRB:
--- Quote from: james_s on December 28, 2020, 08:42:33 am ---Is it? I thought the standard was 240V?
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It has been 230V for almost 2 decades. And AM radio stations are allocated 9kHz apart, not 10kHz ;).
Thinking our mains is 240V is still common for some reason. But around 1995 I worked with an "engineer" at IBM who actually thought our mains voltage was 110V 60Hz. He plugged in a special 110V monitor imported from the US into our mains and wondered why it blew up. He said he had a degree in Electronic Engineering from RMIT. I suspect his degree was fake. It turned out his technical skills were quite low, and other engineers and technicians often did his work for him. His incompetence produced a number of serious electrical hazards. Despite being a nice bloke, he was fired within a year of joining the company.
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