Any suggestions, please?

[Basil Chupin]

On 10/09/2010 22:51, Li Li wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-09-10 at 11:23 +0800, Christopher Chan wrote:
>
>    
>> Yeah, me too because we use 220V here in Hong Kong and I am somehow
>> running at 310 (!!!) volts at home according to my digital multimeter. I
>> hope that is not true and that something is amiss about my multimeter
>> but then the previous occupier had recently had the mains replaced so...
>>
>>      
> Does your DVM read true RMS?  310 x .707 = 219.17.  I suspect not.  That
> looks like a peak reading of standard two leg 220 V.  I don't remember
> the power arrangements in HK (two phase, three phase, whatever) and it
> has likely changed a lot since I last lived there in the early 70s.
> Does "one country, two systems" apply to AC power as well?
>
> Basil, are you sorted?
Ce`?

"Sorted"?

BC

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