I believe that is true for some countries, in other countries they did increase the voltage. I know it happened in the Netherlands, because we measured the voltages at our university¹s datacenter over that period.
Camiel. On 8/30/17, 11:54 AM, "cctalk on behalf of Peter Coghlan via cctalk" <cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org on behalf of cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: >> >> I think that I'm responsible for the dead, as the plotter stood in an >>attic >> for 20 years, meanwhile power was raised from 220 to 230v (+-10%) in >>Europe. >> > >The distribution voltage had previously been specified as 220V in some >European >countries and 240V in others but the specification was then changed to >230V >in all the countries involved, with a wider tolerance applied. This >allows >new equipment to be designed to a common standard which will work in any >of >the countries. As far as I understand it, there has been no deliberate >change >in the actual distribution voltage in any individual European country and >the >power companies continue to do what they did before the 230V standard >came in. > >Regards, >Peter Coghlan.
