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- From: rfc@allegra.att.com (Robert F. Casey)
- Subject: Re: 110V -> 220/240Vconversion for appliances
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.002318.11246@allegra.att.com>
- Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ
- References: <7263@m1.cs.man.ac.uk> <ERIC.93Jan22165058@kilo.mks.com>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 00:23:18 GMT
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- In article <ERIC.93Jan22165058@kilo.mks.com> eric@kilo.mks.com (Eric Gisin) writes:
- >You can install 15A, 230-240V receptacles and meet the Canadian electric code.
- >You can run a circuit to the distribution panel,
- >or (not to code) connect to the split 120-120V
- >receptacles that all recently wired kitchen counters have.
- >
- >However, if you plug in any non-CSA approved appliances into any outlet,
- >and they cause a fire, your insurance will not pay any claims.
-
- Are they really that strict? I would have thought that the European
- approvals might be seen as reasonably equivalent by the insurance
- company. But they might have a problem if you did a sloppy job
- of connecting the power to the European equipment.
-