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[Ian Harris]

Originally Posted by phil_h

I think you missed our earlier point ...
the uk and europe came to an agreement several years ago to all change our mains voltages, and we met in the middle at 230V.
So all of europe and the british isles have run at 230Vac for quite a while.
What you will find of course is that local supply voltage regulation can be variable

If we are indeed running at a mean level of 230 volts then , as you say, all should be well...but my understanding was that there was a European decision to "harmonise" electricity supply, but it was too expensive for either mainland Europe or the UK to change, so the -6% / +10% leeway just enabled both sides to remain as they were, so any UK volt fluctuations will be around our long-standing 240 volt standard, not the suggested 230 volt.

European Union fudge? Surely not!

Regarding CE approval, at the end of the day, I'm just being hyper-cautious to maximise valve longetivity ... if they're optimised to run at 220, I'd rather feed them 220 (or at least have any fluctuations centred around 220 , not 240).

Thanks for all your input, its much appreciated.