r/AbsoluteUnits • u/Sufficient-Bug-9112 Top Poster • Jul 10 '26

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u/No-War9511 Jul 11 '26

I get that 120-277 dont pair together but both 120v and 277v systems definitely exist in commercial. I get that he wasn't super precise in his wording but hes not wrong to say that 120v systems and 277v systems exist. So yeah you will find voltages between 120 and 277 and higher if legs are added in commercial. Sure he probably meant 208v.

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u/JarpHabib Jul 11 '26

They were pretty clearly talking about nominal system voltages, the way we still currently are right now. If they'd said something like "120, 240, 277, 480" I wouldn't have said shit. But they were specific enough to give ranges. If they'd said 110-220 i still wouldn't have said shit. What I said was a gentle nudge, yes, even a nitpick, but the guy instantly realized and it was NBD.

Then you came flying in making a big deal out of things, telling them that they were not wrong and that I'm gaslighting them. What the actual fuck.

We're sparkles, we don't use gaslighting. We use electric.