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		kelnos on Aug 29, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why does the USA use 110V and UK use 230-240V? (20... I was a little surprised that my neighborhood must have some redundancy. A year or so ago a transformer on a pole two doors down from us popped, and our power actually didn't go out.

bombcar on Aug 30, 2023 [–]

The transformer likely served the houses further down the block - yours was served by one upstream.

It isn’t terribly hard to track it back if the wires are above ground.

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