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Glen,

 

Like was already discussed, and I know you're likely joking, but 122 and 244 are within the range of specs for 120 and 240 circuits. As are 110 and 220. Because the specifications say +/- 10%.

 
 
 
I have several UPS battery units with display panels that indicate various parameters such as incoming voltage.  Currently (LOL) is 123.  The lowest I recall noticing was 114 in the early evening on one of those scorcher summer days.

The ANSI C84.1 standard which utilities commonly follow allows a service variation (at the meter) of +/-5% on a 120v supply ... 114v to 126v.

https://voltage-disturbance.com/voltage-quality/voltage-tolerance-standard-ansi-c84-1/
 
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Hi Ralph.  I suppose I would be happy to oblige by suing you over the use of the word "burner" in the context of induction.

 

In the UK, they are called "burners" if they are gas.  They are called "zones" in the case of induction.  And they are called "elements" if they are...well...elements, such as coil elements which could also be called rings.  On ceramic resistance types they are called zones or elements.  I think the people who refer to induction "burners" are typically the same people who connect them to 220 Volts 😂.
 
For those who get all twisted out of shape when somebody calls an electric stove "element" a "burner":

 

<h1 class="post-title">How To Replace an Electric Stove Burner</h1>
 

<span class="post-author">Scott The Fix-It Guy</span>

<h2>Introduction</h2>
When you turn on your electric stove burners, they're supposed to heat up quickly. When they don't, you might be tempted to set up a service call to get them fixed.

 

But wait! You might be able to easily fix the problem yourself. Here you'll learn the simple steps to troubleshoot the problem, and two possible solutions.

<h2> </h2>
 ...

https://www.familyhandyman.com/project/how-to-replace-an-electric-stove-burner/
 
 
My family has used the term burner for electric coil units since the beginning of my lifetime.  Also for gas.  Also for smoothtop electric.  No one in the family thus far has induction but I don't doubt the same terminology would apply.

Because they get hot and can burn stuff ...
 
I’m with you Glenn, they are burners. Thats the way I and everyone else that I know have always referred to them.

The first time I heard someone refer to an electric stove burner as a “eye”, I thought WTH are you talking about? How can you cook anything on an eye? Electric burner elements don’t even closely resemble an eye. And they sure as hell can’t see anything. I can’t understand how that term ever came into use.

Now if they had referred to the burner as an element that I would have understood, because after all the functioning part of the burner is an electric element.

Eddie
 
From what I recall we had gas stoves so it was put a pan on the gas and on the rare time we had electric it was known as a ring. Seems now all we have are gas tops and electric ovens and for electric its those horrible solid hotplates or ceramic and Induction. I am a fan of Induction having cooked on many sources including solids fuel.
 
It doesn’t really matter what you call it

Unless you want to sound like you know what you’re talking about, a gas stove has burners, and electric range has elements, and induction cooktop has heating areas or cooking areas they are also sometimes called power coils as there’s a huge coil of copper wire under the glass surface of an induction range.

John
 
Proper names for surface cooking elements

GE does not call them burners in technical literature, there’s a big difference between scientific and technical information and what the public understands this is where you get that discrepancy it still doesn’t make it correct to call electric element a burner it just isn’t right.

There are many miss uses of the English language, common things we see every day like they’ll ask you to please print when you are filling out information by hand what they really mean they want you to letter.

It’s impossible to print without a machine like a typewriter but this is what we put up with it’s a sloppy language.

John.
 
John,

I was taught to PRINT in elementary school when I first learned to write, and thats just what they called it and I bet thats what you were taught too.. They didn’t call it LETTERING, they called it PRINTING, because thats what it is, as opposed to cursive writing.

Yes in GE’s owners manual they do call the burners “surface units”, not elements. And most of the country calls the heat source on their stove tops burners.

So now you’re an English teacher too.

Potato/patato, tomato/tamato lets call the whole thing off.

Eddie
[this post was last edited: 1/10/2023-09:43]
 
I like how dynamic the English language is

I think it's good that new definitions of words and changes in English usage are decided by English speakers themselves and not by a central regulatory agency, as is the case with languages such as Spanish.  So if enough people in Mississippi and Alabama refer to cooktop elements as "eyes" then it's therefore a valid definition of the word "eye" and is correct usage in those areas among those people, although it may not be used in places like California or England.  People all over the world have their own identities and cultures and their own way of speaking English.  It just so happens that the American way is wrong ha ha.  Just kidding!!!!!

 

Do electric cars have gas pedals?  🤔
 
Hey Greg.  Although the vent was also available with it, I didn't buy it.  I was advised to stick with my current Viking vent, as the Thermador vent is no better and it would be a pain to change it.  Not to mention the cost of shipping from Montreal to Palm Springs.

 

I was thinking it might be possible to hook up the cooktop's "vent up & down" control to my current vent. 
 
#46

Mark, those localized/regionaized sayings are called colloqioalisms. Not sure if you have heard of that term befoe. Did not want to assume.
 
@2packs, does your cooktop have pilotless ignition? I grew up in the subdivision across Westheimer from Westchase. Our street was built fall 1960/winter/spring 1961. A house down the street from ours had a RCA Whirlpool kitchen and the cooktop looked an aweful lot like yours as I remember it. The cooktop had pilotless ignition. I was fascinated by it given our O'Keef & Merrit cooktop (as well as our 1954/1955 Norge gas dryer) had standing pilot lights.
 
Pilotless ignition

I'm of the opinion that much of the harmful pollutants that a gas cooktop or range might produce would be reduced, perhaps greatly, by getting rid of the pilot lights and replacing them, if possible, with pilotless ignition.
 
Thank you. Our O'Keefe & Merrit cooktop had two pilot lights also, maybe three. There was a griddle in the middle between the two sets of burners on each side. One could purchase an additional burner grate so one could have a total of 5 surface burnres for pots/pans if dsired. I don't remember my mom ever having more than 3 burners going at the same time. The front right burner had the "burner with a brain" and it spooked her. I had to finally show her how to use it after I read the owners manual. Both the wall oven & cooktop were replaced in the mid-1980s. I wish I could have kept the manuals for both. But my mom pitched them after the units were replaced.
 

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