David Nebenzahl wrote:
On 2/27/2009 7:15 AM bud-- spake thus:

A better place to ask the question is probably
uk.d-i-y

Ackshooly, the OP seems to have gotten good answers here.

Last I saw it was a very active newsgroup and handled UK electrical
questions. This newsgroup is primarily US and Canada. It is really
surprising how much different the electrical practice in the UK is.
For instance sockets do not have switches this side the pond. And we
do not have 32A general use branch circuits and never ring circuits.

Well, we (North America) *can* have switched sockets; the devices are
available, and I've seen them in homes, even installed them myself, but
it's true they're not common. And yes, no 32 A (!!!) branch circuits and
the exceedingly *weird* ring circuits. Leave it to the Brits ...

However, I will say that 230/240 volts is more efficient than our 120.
(Less I^^2 R loss.)



Except they have 50 cycle power. Bigger transformers needed.

TDD