[Amps] Safety grounding - was Mains Isolation Transformer

[Gudguyham at aol.com]

In a message dated 7/5/2006 12:31:24 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
ve3zi at yahoo.com writes:

I can  understand why ranges, heaters, AMPLIFIERS and
other high power devices  need a 240V supply, and I can
understand why in North America that supply  is
balanced around neutral. What I don't understand is
why, when they  decided that ranges needed timers and
clocks and all the rest, they didn't  just power the
electronics from 240V? After all, most of the rest of
the  world uses 230V for everything.

73  Roger
VE3ZI/G3RBP



Roger, I have been asking myself that for years, but I think it has to do  
with $$$$ some way or another. Lou