[Scoundreller]

> heck, only Japan is 110V besides the US as far as I know

Japan is an oddball by being 100V.

US is 120 and that extends pretty far south (and north).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mains_electricity_by_country

I’m semi amazed motor vehicles are as standard as they are with 12V and the same socket worldwide. I guess the tobacco industry is a great unifier.

[troad]

Central/South America has a lot of 100-130 V too, I believe, but I don't have direct personal experience.

I find the standard voltages pretty interesting. The 230 V standard, for example, is mostly a lie. In reality, Britain and former British colonies tend to run on 240 V, and continental Europe/Asia/Africa tends to run on 220 V. The 230 V standard includes wide enough tolerances so that no one needed to actually change anything. I've never actually seen 230 V, the supposed standard, in real life.

[iggldiggl]

> I've never actually seen 230 V, the supposed standard, in real life.

I've just measured the voltage in a socket my home (Germany) and the multimeter says 231 V. (And it's nighttime, so no solar generation from houses in the neighbourhood potentially distorting the local grid.)

[Scoundreller]

Be careful in Montserrat: US plugs but UK voltage (!)

[troad]

With tidbits like that, you're my kind of person

[sidewndr46]

The US is most definitely 110 VAC at the outlet level for small appliances. It's not uncommon to see as high as 126 VAC however.

NATO compliant vehicles are 24 volt as far as I know