Recent content by roybrander

Thank you! Is THAT why nearly all kettles are at 1500W. I did find an 1800W kettle once, it must be legal to sell such devices. And I'd argue that a thing almost always done at night, with the rest of the house quiet, is the safest time to take a circuit to the max. Splitting the diff at...

Nobody seems to have done the simple arithmetic here. If you get 361 miles from 77.4 kWh, you're getting 4.6 miles from every 1 kWh, so if you only got 26 miles, you were only charging at 413 watts! A 120V socket can put out over 1800 watts, it should have charged up well over 100 miles of...