It seems to me that one thing hasn't been brought up in this thread (kick me if it has). What kind of appliances are we talking about? A washing machine and dryer need a lot of power to run, therefore 220 power would be the way to go. You get double the amount of electrons to feed their hungry motors. But for regular wall sockets, why do you need to have 220 power racing through your lightbulbs or computers when you could have 110 pumping out enough amperage to power them easily? Seems that would be a little more efficient.
Please enlighten me though...
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