Comment on Why do so many UK electrical sockets have an on/off switch next to them?
timbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago240 is used all the time for furnaces, driers, and increasingly EV outlet connections.
It’s just all our “normal” stuff is 120.
Empricorn@feddit.nl 4 days ago
I wish our electric kettle outlets were 240. I’m unreasonably jealous that other places in the world can boil water faster!
pixelscript@lemm.ee 4 days ago
I think you can have it, but you’t need to spend a pretty penny.
All it would take is calling an electrician to run the appropriate wiring from the place you want the kettle plugged in to you breaker box, connect it to the breaker box with the appropriate breaker, cap off the other end with the appropriate plug (a 240V plug does exist in America), and then buy a kettle capable of receiving the rated current and splice on the appropriate plug (because I presume you won’t find one sold with that plug).
An extremely expensive way to save maybe three minutes boiling water, but you can do it.