Any suggestions, please?

[chris]

On Fri, 2010-09-10 at 05:51 -0700, 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?  Inquiring minds want to know.  
> 
> Maybe it was in NZ that they used 250 V RMS all those years ago, or Fiji
> or somewhere else.  Any Kiwis around?
> 
> -- 
> Lilly
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> 2.31.90
> 
> 
> 

single phase 230 volt, that runs close to 240 volt.

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Cheers the kiwi