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Originally Posted by shalym
I've never seen an electric dryer, stove, or washing machine that is "wired in" in the USA. The stove and the dryer use the special plugs <snip> …
Shari
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Originally Posted by John F
I haven't seen any either, and I would guess that "wired" appliances wouldn't be up to current local building codes.
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It may depend on era and locality. It was certainly more normal for 220V to be wired in the places I visited in USA in 1980s.
Anyway, the point is that the voltage is the important bit and something plugged in "decides" (by design, function etc) how much power to use, not the power ability of the socket.
I'm glad to hear the USA now can have plug in fast boil kettles and portable electric heaters that are 2500W to 3000W like Europe.
Here a washing machine or dryer plugs into a regular socket, but anything stationary can be wired into a fused outlet, just like the hot water tank heaters use. Of course anything involving direct wiring is supposed to be installed by a registered installer, but no-one has a database of your house wiring …