If the UK leaves the EU, will the nominal voltage be changed back to 240v?

[eveares]

The other day I was listing to a chat radio station and they were debating about whether we should or should not leave the EU. If we do end up leaving the EU, do you think the official nominal voltage in the UK will ever be re-increased from 230v to 240v along with everything else Europe has changed with our electrical standards?

What do you think?

Regards: Elliott

 

[winston1]

Maybe, maybe not. Australia I believe changed their nominal to 230v and they are not in the EU.

Either way it won't matter as the actual voltage in the UK never changed anyway.

 

[stillp]

No. The UK would still be a member of CENELEC and the IEC.

 

[Iggifer]

No, because it's not do with the EU, it's to do with CENELEC

 

[Iggifer]

Damn

 

[Echo the husky]

Who cares about that?! I just want the cable colours to change back to what they were!

 

[PBC_1966]

No, for the whole reasons of CENELEC, claimed "necessity" of European trade even if outside the EU, etc. As for the colors, it would be the same reasons trotted out for not changing them back, despite the fact that the "old" system was far better. And remember that while fixed cable colors changing is a recent thing, the beginning of the change started back before the U.K. joined what was then the EEC anyway.

 

[winston1]

No, for the whole reasons of CENELEC, claimed "necessity" of European trade even if outside the EU, etc. As for the colors, it would be the same reasons trotted out for not changing them back, despite the fact that the "old" system was far better. And remember that while fixed cable colors changing is a recent thing, the beginning of the change started back before the U.K. joined what was then the EEC anyway.

Gosh you've become Americanised! COLOUR please here.

 

[PBC_1966]

Depends if you want to be closer to the original Latin or the French which was derived therefrom.

 

[eveares]

As for the colors...

Colors Colours

 

[ban-all-sheds]

What do you think?

I think you are confused over the differences between Europe, the EU, the EEA, CENELEC, and probably anything with the word "European" in it.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

Either way it won't matter as the actual voltage in the UK never changed anyway.

But the nominal voltage did, and there were implications of that.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

Depends if you want to be closer to the original Latin or the French which was derived therefrom.

No - it depends on whether you want to write English or not.

 

[PBC_1966]

No - it depends on whether you want to write English or not.

Like Shakespeare used, for example?

 

[ban-all-sheds]

Like someone used over 400 years ago?

Things change.

That's the way it works.

Get over it.