"James Sweet" wrote in message
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David Lesher wrote:
writes:
| I envy EU houses. If we had regular 240V/30A+ outlets, I'd be able to
| buy a snowblower with real guts. The 120v@15A ones are wimpy.
So put one in.
The issue is not the outlets available in my house [but I sometimes wish
for 3 phase..].
Rather, it's the ready market of consumer appliances that would take
advantage of them. That would require many houses to have them.
Get UK/commercial appliances, they're out there.
Yes like my Amana commercial RadarRange which is 4KW in 2.2KW out and has 3
HV magnetrons along with 3 each of the other necessary items (cap, diode,
etc.). It even has a current transformer that tells the control board via
current draw when the magnetrons are warmed up so that the timer doesn't
start counting down until it is actually cooking. It has a standard NEMA
6-20 plug on it now and will pop a bag of popcorn in roughly 75 seconds
without scorching it. I can tell you it sure beats the hell out of regular
microwave ovens for most things. The only thing I still use the regular one
for are items that involve liquids as the Amana tends to make them either
boil over or boils out all of the water before the food is cooked.