Re: Nostalgia? Probably.
In the context of voltages, it's always worth checking what your DNO is providing as 'line voltage' - here I'm only 1Km from the substation [a nice big dual-500KVA-transformer 33KV-incomer job] and regularly see an as-delivered 252V - which could be a bit much for gear originally intended for 115-230V or 120/240V duty.
At least with such a 'chunky' upstream I'm less subject to the horrors of "someone plugs a kettle in next-door, line-voltage goes down 5V and I'm chasing 2KHz of local-oscillator-drift on 14MHz" nastiness.
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