The one thing that always supprises me is how uniform European Electrical systems actually are.

All of Europe, with the historical exception of the UK, Cyprus, Malta and Gibraltar, used 220V 50 Hz

The UK settled on 240V also at 50Hz.

Making it easy to jump to 230V 50Hz as a harmonised nominal standard.

I just find it amazing that unlike in many other areas that we didn't end up with 5/6 different frequencies.

With the UK on 66.6666 Hz and France on 100 Hz or something along those lines [Linked Image]


[This message has been edited by djk (edited 09-14-2003).]