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A family from another country builds a home in America. They bring all their forgien appliances with them, it's all 240v.(or just pick a voltage you'd like here) TV's , radios, blenders, vacuum cleaners, etc. They would like the entire residence to be wired as it would be in their homeland.

All common sense aside, is this doable???

I think the sockets and voltage difference you could over come but the Hz could be another matter

hmmmm, that might be a problem, however the dif from 50 to 60 may be negligable given residential appliances.

the Q is purely hypothetical, given some interesting threads in this forum.

your input especially, Appy

I do have customers that spend ridiculous $$$$ on silly things here, so this is not that far out..


I'm wondering how the AHJ would view a home with a different voltage system than normally seen...

Sparky,

As coincidence would have it, here comes a question from todays' Mailbag:

Sparky,

I hope that you don't mind if I borrow your thread a little here? (I'll fill up the tank for you)

Now, in our 'Real Life' situation here Leonie doesn't say if they'll be going to a new Home being built or an existing Home. So it may not be exactly the same question as yours. I've invited Leonie to participate, so maybe We can fine-tune things here if necessary to meet the situation.

I think there are 2 things to consider here and they should be separated right away for a mimimum of confusion. Since you started discussion on the wiring of the houes, let this be the 'Practical' How-do-you? and Can-you-do-it? I started a separate Thread on the specific effects that different voltages and frequencies might have on Electrical items. That is at:
http://electrical-contractor.net/ubb/Forum7/HTML/000020.html

Bill

Hi Leonie!
this is an oppourtune coincidence, please jump on in here.

We have a 240/120v system here. we do supply 240 to dryers, ranges,hot h2o, and other such appliances, so to do so for your items may be possible.

One Q that comes to mind would be if dedicated circuits were to be introduced, would it be better to correct cord cap and matching recptacles to an American version, or purchase a UK receptacle.

( I have an "unstumpable" supplier that would love this!)



[This message has been edited by sparky (edited 03-25-2001).]

Sparky,

According to that Resource We were looking at recently this is the type of Plug they use

I think some of these UK male cord caps are fused ?? Is this true?

I will put word out as to availability of mating receptacles



[This message has been edited by sparky (edited 03-25-2001).]

Yep thats right Sparky they have little fast blows in the male ends also the sockets on the wall as they RingMain in the UK

As a side note, there was also information that said that receptacles were typically controlled by an adjacent switch.

Bill

Old Appy's link on the other thread sells adapters. The following one is the match I think. I guess they're assuming the Item has some sort of dual voltage selector switch. If it did I guess that would take care of some items.