[geeks] New Intel Atom-based barebones system

[Jonathan Groll]

On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 05:23:04PM +0300, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
>On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 04:16:53PM +0200, Jonathan Groll wrote:
>>So if you are thinking of trying my technique be aware of these
>>caveats.  For the record, I live in a country with 220V mains.
>
>Interesting. For some reason I thought that .za was 240 like .uk and .au.
>
>However, the UK is now 230 volts (we'll call it that, but it's really 240),
>and Oz really is 240. :-)
>

The electricity supply is meant to be 220/230 volts AC 50 HZ, with the
exception of Pretoria (230 V?) and Port Elizabeth (200/250 V). I've
measured as low as 216 V at home (Cape Town).

Are other countries homogenous? Also (conspiracy theory time) don't
power companies make more money if they give you 240 instead of 230V?

Regards,
Jonathan