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by p1mrx 1032 days ago
120V-5% is still greater than 110V.

Power supplies are rated for 100V because that's the voltage in Japan. Though the tolerance would probably be useful for running a really long US extension cord.

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Technically they function fine as low as 95V for the worst case scenario, if they're well built.
Nothing to do with well built usually, just designed to work in all regions (specifically, Japan, which has 100V power for because of... reasons).
My old computer started burning in some internal cabling about 30 years ago. Turns out our power wasn't 230 V when the power company came and set up a machine to make a graph. Some times of the day it could be much lower and that made my ancient atari converted to a towerbox to burn the cable to the harddrive on booting.