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If you plugged a 110V toaster into a 220V outlet what would happen to the electrical current of the toaster?
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∙ 12y ago
Two main differences are between 110V and 220V. One is the voltage and the other the frequency (60Hz and 50Hz, respectively).
In a pure electrical (not electronic) toaster, the frequency shouldn't matter. On the other hand, if we think the toaster as a resistance heater and nothing else, then the amount of heat delivered to the toast is
Q=V^2/R
Since the only change in going from 110V to 220V is to double the Voltage, then we see from here that the heat will be enhanced by a factor 4.
This is too much. I'd say that the wires which get red and transmit the heat would blow up if the amount of heat they deliver is 4 times what they were made for.
However, this is a pure theoretical guess. In these cases nothing better that somebody who tried it tells us what happened!
Ezequiel.
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