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Old Aug 10, 2008 | 3:34 pm
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Originally Posted by htb
However, voltage in Frankfurt is 240 V, not 220 V.
Both are wrong. It used to be 220V in most of mainland Europe and 240V in the UK (and presumably Ireland) but in line with EU harmonisation policies we're all now officially 230V, but with a +/-10% tolerance so nobody actually had to change anything.
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