[BC] 110 V DC

[Robert Meuser]

Canada delivers power at 600V 3 phase. It sure makes field wiring easier 
as you can power a whole hut heater and all off 10 guage direct burial 
single phase cable. 600V lights and heaters permits a 1 KVA or less step 
down transformer.

R


nakayle at gmail.com wrote:

> For all practical purposes, 220/380, 230/400, 240/415 are the same
> since almost any device for 230 with also work on 220 or 240 (or
> 380/400/214 for 3-phase).
>
> Japan is only country with 100V- and it only in certain parts.
>
> - Nat
>
> On 12/2/06, PeterH5322 <peterh5322 at rattlebrain.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> >Most of the rest of the world used 230V for all single phase service
>> >which becomes 400V for 3-phase.
>>
>> Japan is 100 and 200.
>>
>> Various parts of what is now the EU used to be 220/380, 230/400 or
>> 240/415, with 220/380 and 240/415 being predominate, and 230/400 being
>> somewhat of a rarity. My former employer made mainframe data processing
>> equipment for the 380 and 415 markets.
>>
>> EU "harmonized" on 230/400 by law, but not necessarily by reality.
>>