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Anonymous Posted 13 years ago
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Do appliances have voltages?

Do appliances have voltages? What can be described as high voltage or when saying that The voltage is too high. Could you be talking about appliances consuming too high a voltage?

The voltage of the appliance is too high. The fuse will blow.
The voltage of the appliance is too high. The fuse will blow.
This appliance consumes too high a voltage. The fuse will blow.

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Anonymous Do appliances have voltages? They have voltage ratings . The supply varies from country to country.

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  • Anonymous Do appliances have voltages?
  • They have voltage ratings .
  • The supply varies from country to country.
  • "Consumes" is probably a bad word to use, although it's intuitively correct.
  • When you speak of "the voltage of the appliance," you're speaking about it's rating.
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AnonymousDo appliances have voltages?
They have voltage ratings. The supply varies from country to country.

"Consumes" is probably a bad word to use, although it's intuitively correct.

When you speak of "the voltage of the appliance," you're speaking about it's rating. It's designed to operate with a supply "range" of eg.110 to 125 vol
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Wattage is the measure of electrical energy, not voltage. Wattage is the product of current and voltage.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watt

Besides, what usually blows fuses is a sudden high current, as in a short circuit.
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A few more points about your questions....
Every appliance approved by UL (in the US) has a spec listed on the unit. In north America, the wall sockets we have in our homes supply 120vac. A common hair dryer like mine comsumes 1875 Watts (of power). Nowadays,
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AlpheccaStarsWattage is the measure of electrical energy, not voltage. Wattage is the product of current and voltage.
Off-topic:

Volts, amps, ohms, watts, even coulombs and a few other units, I'm sure! I admire anyone who can follow all of that! My dad was an electrician, and I took physics in college, so I've had no shortage of explanations of thes
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CalifJimnot a plea to have anyone explain it
You're safe with me! Emotion: smile - A.
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dimsumexpressThis appliance consumes too high a voltage. The fuse will blow.
Were you going to comment on this?
CJ's plea notwithstanding, I can't resist.

Voltage is electromotive force (EMF). How do you consume a force? Do you consume gravity by falling down?
dimsumexpressThe power consumed is the
Yes, "power"
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AvangiWere you going to comment on this?
No. It's past my technical expertise. Emotion: smile

I kn
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AvangiYes, "power" is what is consumed, not voltage.
The power company bills you for KWH (kilowatt hours). That's watts acting over time --- doing work over time. The voltage is hopefully there all the time, whether you use it or not, free of charge. (Like gravity.)
Englsih question aside, most of us don't care what comes out of the wall as long as we turn
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dimsumexpressThe amount of current going through each breaker is determined by the rating of the breaker.
This could be misleading to a novice.

The amount of current going through each breaker is limited by the rating of the breaker. .

The maximum amount of current going through each breaker is
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such an interesting topic!
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