110AC pwr is a waste & expensive to create & maintain,The US chooses to ignore the rest of the World's pwr.voltage,due to some misplaced admiration for Tom Edison. Foolish,is what it is.
Homes in the US are fed what's called split-phase 220VAC, operating at a superior 60Hz. The phase is split at the step-down transformer, meaning you have an extra piece of wire that runs to the residence.
There's no waste or expense save that extra wire and tap on the transformer, everything else is just cable. You could just as easily feed 220VAC on the outlets in a USA home, if you had said desire - the copper ROMEX doesn't care. Most switching supplies don't give a shit either, they'll run on pretty much anything from 90-250VAC, 50-400Hz.
110 allowed us to do things that Europe could only dream of in the early days, including making radio cheap for the masses by directly heating the series string in a receiver and removing the expense of a power transformer. At this point, there's absolutely no reason to change, all the power hungry appliances are 220 anyway.
You are possibly an electrician. A bird of science and history for sure
I'm not an electrician, but I am an electronics technician. The two professions dance with one another.
Thank You, So sick of transplanted euros trying to pretend the electrical system in the US is backwards because it isn't the way they do it back home. You might save a couple bucks on copper, but you waste it on insulation. Jesus Christ! these guys have master degrees in engineering but that white wire is baffling.
Why do Eurocucks do this shit?
Anything that is 'American' they always shit on. Even down to the temperature and measurement the US uses. What a bunch of faggots that have to have USA live rent free in their minds. I never give a shit for the 'metric' and Euro ways, because I know it works best for them. So why give a fuck about us?
I never hear Japanese do this, if anything they embrace and admire it.
It used to be generating companies in the states were obligated to provide power at a voltage and frequency equal to that of the legacy systems they installed, if said legacy systems were powering some industry that relied on those variables.
About 20ish years ago, I read of a cooper in New England that had equipment that ran on 25Hz, because that's what was available when they started. Since all of their equipment was wound for 25Hz, the local electric company was obligated to provide that.
No idea if they're still around.
misplaced admiration for Ben Franklin
Thomas Edison, not Benjamin Franklin you dumbass. You're off by over 100 years.
It was actually George Westinghouse, Edison was a big fan of DC which was not a practical distribution method.
Americans do have misplaced admiration for Edison. The parent poster couldn't have possibly known who Westinghouse was. They don't teach that at Tel Aviv universities
My beer soaked brain told me B.F.:Thanks for the correction.
No. The rest of the world can fuck off.
Also based Japanese use 100V 50Hz.
Only part of the nation uses 50hz, the other part uses 60hz. So much for Japans shining example. https://shulman-advisory.com/2020/02/28/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-japanese-electricity-grid/
They still use 100V.
Are you saying 220 volts is better? It doesn't require as much copper, I suppose. Then the issue is, should we use split phase, single phase, 2 phase power. Then there is the frequency 50 hz or 60 hz. Changing to 50 hz would be problematic because many devices use the line frequency to lock the speed of rotating shafts.
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