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Electricity From 'Thin Air' (Ambient Humidity): Geobacter Nanowires

UK mains supply is nominally 230Vac
Yes....despite the UK and mainland Europe having converged on 230V quite a while ago, numerous falsely-authoritative sources still think we've 240V. I wonder if the same doubt prevails over the Channel, re them no longer actually being 220V?
I'm not an electrician
Indeed. Ditto snap. And on a connected note, there are very-few electricians I trust, and many I'd cheerfully avoid.
 
Iirc, the 230Vac supply is essentially one phase of a 'three-phase' with respect to a neutral (return) line, or can be thought of as such. But the IEE says 415Vac +/- 10%.

(I'm not an electrician, so y'know, check what I've stated...)

Which would suggest a top end of 456.5 Volt. I'm raving to run above that due to the 247 Volt * 2 from the transformer. Fortunately I dont have to do this too often As the capacitors in the artificial 3rd phase are only rated at 500 Volt.
 
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