"John Ammeter" wrote in message
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Why does everyone think the voltage is 110/220??

If that actually was the voltage you had in your house you'd be very unhappy.
The nominal voltage is 118/236 with a +/- 5% range so you can see that 110/220
is actually outside the acceptable range.

Well, duh, John!

Why is a car called a car?

People (except you and a few others) don't really care what comes squirting out
of their wall plugs, and what to call it, as long as it makes things work.

It isn't 120/240 either. It is way too awkward to call it 118/236, even though
that is most accurate. Calling it 110/220 gets the idea across... Let the
electrical engineers and others that get hung up on exactly what it is, figure
out how to fight convention.

To me, it's still 110/220.

Now, let's get really weird, and figure out what comes out of the plugs at my
school. Three phase, split off to use single phase, now is it Delta or Y? 95%
of the people in the US don't know and don't care. What will they call that
208?
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Jim in NC