• MrJameGumb@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    It doesn’t take half an hour to pre heat, it doesn’t heat up the whole house, and I’m not sending my power bill through the roof every time I want to make a meal for one person lol

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        5 months ago

        Lucky you! I’ve never in my life used an oven that took less than 15 minutes to pre heat at the bare minimum

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          5 months ago

          I thought you guys had 240v circuits precisely for this kind of load? On a decent 30a 230v circuit (they generally don’t use anywhere near 30a though) here in Europe it takes considerably less than that. I’d say mine takes 5-8mins for 230c (which is around 450f) and it has a rated power of 3500w.

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                5 months ago

                AFAIK almost any appliance labelled/presumed to be 220V in the US is actually 240V unless it was made before the 50s, because we aren’t allowed to have nice things (like accuracy)

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                  Yes. The USA switched our mains voltage from 110/220 to 120/240 about 50 years. There is a tolerance built in (10%) so that if a circuit is actually running at 100 or 220 then its within specs. A 120v circuit can run anywhere from 108 volts to 132 volts and be within spec. Its a pet peeve of mine when people say 110/220.