Different Voltages

This might sound a little weird that I hadn’t known this,

But before moving here, I would have never expected that there were different voltages for different places, like how America’s on 120 volts but Nigeria’s on 240. Nigeria’s voltage is 2 times higher than America’s, which led to a few blowups here since we didn’t really know what we were doing. Luckily they have step downs to bring the voltage down to America’s standard so nothing else has fried in a long time. But sometimes, even with the right voltage, you get a mega blowup all over the house, from multiple places. Do you know why this happens? PHCN. Power Holding Company of Nigeria. That’s why. Sometimes the electric company sends crazy surges that are 500 volts, pretty much blowing anything that’s connected to an outlet. But luckily, we have this great inverter which shuts down all electricity coming into the outlets if it senses a dangerous voltage. Thank you inverter!

Signing off,

The Traveler