> How common is equipment that runs on 240V besides large appliances sold in
> the US? Not very much.
Might depend on what environment it was designed for. If for home or office
110v would be almost exclusively the norm. If it was designed for an industrial
environment, 220v may have been used sometimes. Plus, so many pieces of
equipment were designed to be switchable between 110v and 220v.
At 08:53 AM 7/6/03 -0700, you wrote:
>On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Witchy wrote:
>
> > Somewhere, possibly on trash80.org, is a writeup on why this machine came
> ^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>No such URL.
>
> > Another puzzle is why mine came with a 240V printer when it was a 110V US
> > machine? How common is a 240V circuit over there, apart for the likes of
> > washing machines?
>
>How common is equipment that runs on 240V besides large appliances sold in
>the US? Not very much.
>
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