OT: american vs european 220 (Tony Duell)

If it's a Cylinda, it might actually be made in Sweden. If it's an Electrolux, it could be made just about anywhere. Electrolux own 50 brands or thereabouts, and I believe they make appliances in several countries in Eastern Europe as well as in Italy (Zanussi is Electrolux since ages, as well as the AEG appliances division). On the subject of power sockets in bathrooms, in Sweden sockets may be fitted in bathrooms provided they are either earthed and protected by a Ground Fault Interrupter (there is probably a requirement that the GFI be located outside the bathroom), or have an isolating step-down transfomer internally, 220/110 and about 20 VA or so. Houses built after 1994 may not have non-earthed sockets anywhere. My bathroom has a small laundry section which I am intending to use as a darkroom. My flat is from 1963 so there is no socket in there, I have bought a portable GFI and intend to run an earthed extension lead from the kitchen via the GFI into the bathroom whenever I want to use it as a darkroom. Probably illegal but it should protect me (I hope...). Jonas