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Default Can I Use a 120V Appliance with a 220V Socket?

On 12/3/19 5:23 PM, trader_4 wrote:

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No one has yet commented that the stated 220/120V does not compute.
Today in the USA it's 240 or 120V and when it was 220V, it was presumably
110V, ie 220/110. So I assume they meant 240/120V.


I have heard of:

110/220
115/230
117/234
118/236
120/240
125/250

There is always a 1:2 ratio (higher voltage is twice lower one). Older
people often say 110/220. I measure almost exactly 120/240 here.

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