From: DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno@decadentlinuxuser.org   
      
   Michael Moroney wrote:   
      
   > Long Hair  writes:   
   >   
   >>Michael Moroney wrote:   
   >   
   >>> I was wondering if it was intended for either a 110V or 220V circuit (and   
   >>> the homeowner had to remember which plugs could go in which outlets), maybe   
   >>> for DC, or perhaps before they standardized on what's now the NEMA 1-15   
   >>> plug.   
   >>>   
   >>> NEMA 2-15 (220V, 15A, no ground) is in the spec, but was it ever used?   
   >>>   
   >   
   >>  It is 120 - 240  It has not been 110 volts for SEVERAL decades.   
   >   
   > I know that. I deliberately wrote 110-220 because at the time they defined   
   > NEMA 2-15 it may have still been 110v, or 117v.  Nameplate voltage has   
   > risen over the years (110, 115, 117, 120).   
   >   
   > When the outlet I asked about was defined, it was almost certainly still   
   > 110v.   
      
      
     Nope...  That would have been pre WWI.   
      
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