I'm not even sure 110->120V should need converting. Until recently, we British had 240V (nice duodecimal number) and our continental European partners had 220V (double the American 110), but we standardized recently on 230V, and nobody needed to convert any equipment. (we just had to wait a few more seconds for our kettles to boil to make the tea-- oh! the humanity :-)
What really surprises me is that America went for such a low voltage in the first place: it means the three kilowatt kettle is out of the question for most of you. No wonder you're a nation of coffee drinkers!
Gloria's daughter has become an Aussie (really -- she talks with an Aussie accent). She brought over a kettle like that and Gloria's husband ran in the right kind of wire for it. There's a switch right on the socket, and the kettle has a kind of time-out on it, so it's safe for Gloria except for the fact that it has hot water in it.
I went swimming at Temescal and Stinson Beach, too. (Temescal is an artificial lake? Good heavens -- I never knew.) My main place for swimming, of course, was my grandparents' house in the LA area....
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What really surprises me is that America went for such a low voltage in the first place: it means the three kilowatt kettle is out of the question for most of you. No wonder you're a nation of coffee drinkers!
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