Make sure you specify if you need 3-wire circuits, which are used for most electric water heaters and boilers, or 4-wire circuits, which are more common for stoves and dryers. Remember, upgrading the wiring in your home can be dangerous work with stringent local building code standards.
Unless you are already a qualified contractor, you should have an experienced electrician complete the work for you to ensure that it is all done safely and correctly. If you need to upgrade your home to volt service, call Mister Sparky at today! Prev Post Next Post. By Mister Sparky. Search Advanced search…. New posts. Search forums. Log in. Install the app. Contact us. Close Menu. Welcome to EDAboard. To participate you need to register. Registration is free.
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You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly. You should upgrade or use an alternative browser. Why volts for AC are used in households? Thread starter vikramc Start date Feb 20, Status Not open for further replies. I wonder, on what factors Voltage level is determined. The cost of copper, the cost of insulation, the cost of wasted power in the line drop.
This tradeoff would not be the same today with the high cost of energy, but once something becomes standard there is no way to change it. VVV Advanced Member level 5. Initially many countries had V, since it was considered safer for humans. In the US, there were so many V appliances in use, that it was deemed an unreasonable waste to switch to V and render them useless. This is more of political issue than pure engineering or economic problem.
We went through an interim solution, i. Suppose wires A, B, and C are coming in to your house, and wire B is grounded. If you use A-C, you get V which is good for new appliances. Now, the entire country is V. It took more than 10 years. Holburn produced volt direct current. The future would belong to AC. It was the Germans who introduced AC power in Europe. The International Electro-Technical Exhibition in Germany would prove to be a key event in the development of electric power.
The exhibition featured a hydroelectric power station at Lauffen, with transmission lines that extended miles km north to Frankfurt am Main. The Lauffen-Frankfurt line was the first efficient long-distance transmission system. It transmitted volt 40Hz AC power. Russian-born Dolivo-Dobrovolsky [] immigrated to Germany to study electrical engineering in Darmstadt. He later worked in Berlin and Lausanne, and did important work in electrical science and obtained over 60 patents.
His grave is in Darmstadt. He also preferred volt power. Electric motors are also much less efficient at the lower frequency. Cost was the main reason Europe went with volts now Counterintuitively, higher voltages allow the use of thinner wire, meaning less copper in the early days of power lines. Power companies could save money on wire by using volts rather than Berlin is one example. This became the model for electrical distribution in Germany and the rest of Europe and the volt system later volt soon became the European norm.
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