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[Vieo]

You know how if you go to another country you might need to use an converter to get the electric shaver you bought with you to work? Is this the case for the U.S. and Canada? For example, could I buy a TV in Canada and have it work right out the box in the U.S. without the need for a power converter?

 

[Tabris]

Yes. Infact, some of your power comes from canada.

This is kind of a "dumb" question btw. So there's a good chance you'll be mocked.

 

[Vieo]

Well, I've never been to Canada, so mock if they must. Better safe than sorry is my motto. I've had a GameBoy battery-pack killed by an outlet in Barbados. :lol

 

[alejob]

You suck! Dumb question maker!

Spoiler

Not really, just kidding.

I think Europe and Africa are the one that use 220V. I don't know about fiji though.


Was Barbados a British colony? I think thats why.

Note: Watch out for those french canadian outlets

 

[suikodan]

Note: Watch out for those french canadian outlets

Don't need to. When the big power outage occurred in 2003, I was watching TV and hearing all about it. Quebec's electricity didn't flinch a bit. That says a lot about French canadien efficiency over everything else.

 

[Nintendo Ate My Children]

It says even more about French Canadian snobbery.

 

[Azih]

Don't need to. When the big power outage occurred in 2003, I was watching TV and hearing all about it. Quebec's electricity didn't flinch a bit. That says a lot about French canadien efficiency over everything else.

Not at all actually. It was just that the Southern Ontario grid is extremely tightly integrated with that American one. If any part of Quebec was on the same grid it woulda gone down just like every other place.

Edit: Also what NAMC said.

But yeah, 110V is the standard, some outlets near stoves are higher though (my sis blew my radio up).

 

[6.8]

It says even more about French Canadian snobbery.

Are you snobbing snobs! I've never seen such snob snobbing snobs snobs.

Also you would be wrong. Their grid is independent from the rest to ensure they have control over their network. There's no snoberry in that.

 

[fallout]

Don't need to. When the big power outage occurred in 2003, I was watching TV and hearing all about it. Quebec's electricity didn't flinch a bit. That says a lot about French canadien efficiency over everything else.

I was in Northwestern Ontario at the time and we didn't flinch either. Granted, Kenora's ~2100km from TO, so that might have something to do with it. Thunder Bay (~1500km from TO) only felt a bump too though, as I recall. So uh ... hooray for hydro!

EDIT: Actually, now the I recall ... we did flinch a little. My dad said that the backup generators kicked in at the airport, which requires a pretty huge drop in load.

Heh, I remember my dad telling me one time, he was visiting one of the nuclear plants down here (Southern Ontario) and they were talking about their testing for individual lines, to see what would happen if a major line fell and there was a significant drop in the load. My dad then asked what would happen if everything suffered a drop. They replied that there was no way to test that, so they had no clue.

 

[Cerebral Palsy]

Is Canadian air compatible with my American lungs? I wouldn't want to die.

 

[Azih]

There's no snoberry in that.

We're talking about suikodan here, not Hydro Quebec.

 

[6.8]

You are. But the Nintendo Ate My Children clearly specified French Canadians and not Suikodan.

 

[Azih]

You are. But the Nintendo Ate My Children clearly specified French Canadians and not Suikodan.

I don't read it that way, I read it as NAMC playing off suikodan's irritating

That says a lot about French canadien efficiency over everything else

line by replacing 'efficiency' with 'snobbery'. Hydro Quebec's practices are barely relevant.

 

[6.8]

Of course, the fact that it stayed on had to do with the architecture, and nothing else. However, since it won't be affected by external networks as much, it is more efficient in that regard. Can't really say if it's more efficient internally, I don't know enough about either networks to comment on it.