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Is that like putting you tongue across the terminals of a 9v battery to see if it's dead or not?? 
All the EC/EU did was change the name - UK supply voltage never changed, it's still about 240V, just as Spain is still about 220V.WoodlandsCamper said:Prof is right. For years the UK standard used to be a nominal 240v ac and the continent's was much lower (220v?). However, one of the many things that the EU did for us some time ago was to change our (and Europe's) nominal voltages to a common 230v ac.
RogerL said:All the EC/EU did was change the name - UK supply voltage never changed, it's still about 240V, just as Spain is still about 220V.WoodlandsCamper said:Prof is right. For years the UK standard used to be a nominal 240v ac and the continent's was much lower (220v?). However, one of the many things that the EU did for us some time ago was to change our (and Europe's) nominal voltages to a common 230v ac.
WoodlandsCamper said:If the nominal voltage didn't change then why did the electricity boards go around changing people's light bulbs and cooker hot plates free of charge?
RogerL said:- All the EC/EU did was change the name. UK supply voltage never changed, .....................it's still about 240V, just as Spain is still about 220V.
Dustydog said:I've no idea John .
Something to with light bulbs like the gas ones used by King WC.
Oh King, I think your mind may be slipping somewhat in the early 70's gas jets were changed in the switchover to natural gas but electric was unaltered, if you think about it a light bulb is a light bulb and such a change would have involved changing every flouresent strip light and bulb in the country something I am sure most of your subjects would remember.WoodlandsCamper said:Dustydog said:I've no idea John .
Something to with light bulbs like the gas ones used by King WC.
I still have it in my mind that cooker electric rings and light bulbs were changed, possibly late 1960s or early 1970s. :huh:
WoodlandsCamper said:Dustydog said:I've no idea John .
Something to with light bulbs like the gas ones used by King WC.
I still have it in my mind that cooker electric rings and light bulbs were changed, possibly late 1960s or early 1970s. :huh:
ooooh are we that old !!!!!!!!!!!!!!RogerL said:Some caravanners are ancient enought to remember gas mantle lights in caravans and paraffin tilley lamps!