what is meant by 230V?

Question

from my point of view it is the force or potential give to valanced eletron or charged partical to be free charges or eletrons...am i correct...if so why 230V why can't it be some 370 V .....

Answer 1

it is an amount of electrical potential.
230V Is usually on civilian AC power sources
Which is 230V RMS which mean the AC voltage that will give the same power with the same voltage as 230V DC to simplify it.

Also you can have 370V if you have a variable transformer you can make any voltage you want.

Though usually you see 115V and 230V in houses. The reason they set standard voltages so you could make all houses with those voltages and then you make all the electrical devices at those voltages so you can use them.

If every appliance had its own voltage then you would have to put in a new transformer and new lines every time you got a new blender or washer.

It is sort of like how all tran tracks are the same distance apart, and how there are only a few sizes of batteries.

Answer 2

Your point of view is that of one who doesn't know enough about the subject to even formulate a meaningful question.

A 'volt' is a unit of potential energy per unit of charge and it's units are J/C. One Joule per Coulomb is called one volt of potential.

It has absolutely nothing to do with the binding energy of an electron within a chemical bond.


Doug

Answer 3

That's house voltage. It's split into 115V above and below neutral. It can be anything, but that's the standard in the U.S.

Answer 4

where did you get 230 or guess 370.

Answer 5

In Europe 220V is normally used.
360V in factories.
The more volts you use the more dangerous it is in case of accident.