14-04-2017, 03:04 PM
Having just returned from a long holiday in the land of 110v and using many appliances in various locations I definitely feel safer with our system, as Jeffery said the shock is less severe but you are much more likely to get one. Many times I found overheating sockets, lose plugs and had circuits tripping out because it is so easy to overload them with their love of multiway adaptors and octopus wiring and tripping seemed to be accepted as normal by the hotel maintenance teams.
Also it seems the earth pins regularly fall out on the plugs and adaptors but again it was treated as normal, I think they have become very casual about 110v electricity. Overheating and fires seem to be the most common problem.
The choice of 110v seems to be historical that is what Thomas Edison chose at the start albeit DC and it stuck even after changing to AC and whilst there is a case to move to 220v as most of Europe did after WW2 the US now has so many small appliances on 110v the cost of change now would have be horrendous.
Chris
Also it seems the earth pins regularly fall out on the plugs and adaptors but again it was treated as normal, I think they have become very casual about 110v electricity. Overheating and fires seem to be the most common problem.
The choice of 110v seems to be historical that is what Thomas Edison chose at the start albeit DC and it stuck even after changing to AC and whilst there is a case to move to 220v as most of Europe did after WW2 the US now has so many small appliances on 110v the cost of change now would have be horrendous.
Chris
