UK Voltage - the official answer (free of politics)

["Mark Harrison" <Mark.Harrison@xxxxxxx>]

The current UK standard, in line with European requirements, is 230 +10%
-6%.

As such, anything between 216v and 253v is compliant.

To turn to your issues, given this is APC, whack the transfer voltage up
to 265, and it'll be fine.


Mark Harrison
Head of Systems, eKingfisher

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-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan Bradshaw [mailto:jonathan@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 15 March 2002 13:51
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] UK Voltage


I've got a nice rackmount APC SmartUPS 1400 (thanks to eBay) and late
last night I noticed a warning light. Turns out it had started clamping
the voltage due to it hitting 253V AC. This morning it seems around
248V.

Coming from the US, a UPS is a near essential in the number of
"brownouts" and power failures that happen -- especially during
the
harsh winters of the midwest :-)

I was slightly suprised to see the voltage level since I had thought UK
had moved down from 240 and Europe had moved up to provide a european
230V standard?

Its got me curious now...

Jonathan