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Old voltages in Europe
I'm curios, in Europe, in the past, besides 220, 230, 240 Volts what other voltages there where used. In Germany there where ever used 110 V?
In former U.S.S.R they once used 127 V. BUt who in Europe used 150, 180, 200 Volts? Romania was the land of variety. Due to the facts that some areas of Romania wheren't Romanian up to 1918 and that there was no general electrifcation plan up to 1950 you could found a variety of voltages and even 2 frequncyes (in fact, at Resiţa (Reshitza) metalurgical and machines Plant you could find up to the '30's or '40's even a 3rd frequency, 20.8 Hz). The trend was to generalize the 380/220 V voltages and the 50 Hz frequency (this trend apeared in the '30's). But since Romania was a poor country *, this trend spread only into big cityes (except for Bucharest, where the indtroduced 380/220 V in the '50's, so up to the 1974-1975 you could find areas with 208/120 V). In Romania, before the Communist regime started the 10 yrs eletctrification plan (1950-1960) (b.t.w., there are still some remote areas with no electricity), you could find the next voltages and freqeunyces. - 380/220 V 50 Hz. Ploeşti ** (Ploieşti) (except the center of the city) and Prahova county (Ploieşti is the amdinistrative city of Prahova county); City of Braşov and Braşov county, Arad and Arad county, City of Iaşi etc - 380/220 V 42 Hz. City of Timişoara (they where planning even before 1950 to introduced 50 Hz, but W.W. 2 camed) - 208/120 V 50 Hz Bucharest and sourinding areas - 220 V d.c. center of Ploieşti and other ares in the country - 150 V d.c. - 110 & 120 V d.c. * for eg, even in Bucharest not all of the city was electrified (around of it 50-60% was electrified) because people hand't had money to connect theyr house to electricity network and money to pay the wires and the wire installation. Except for the today's Ilfov county (the old Ilfov county was bigger) - the county sorounding Bucharest which was electrifed in a 50-80% proportion, and the countyes of Prahova, Braşov (Brashov) and Sibiu where about the proportion of ruralar electrification was from 20 up to 30 procent (the biggest one was in Sibiu County), other countyes had less then 20% of the villages electrified. ** up to 1949 the city was called Ploeşti, not Ploeişti. This topic might be an off-topic therad, but I don't think Europeanen members are going to the off-topic area! |
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