Re: 2 Phases in North America

[Cortland Richmond]

By the definition below, *single phase* AC would require one wire with no return.  I want to see THAT one work before I pay for it! Cortland Richmond (the above being my own opinion, not a statement of my employer's) Robert Johnson wrote: This has just reopened the old two phase controversy again. Ed has done a good job of describing the systems in detail, but be careful with the terms. Ask an electrical engineer about a 120/240 volt home service and he will call it a two phase system. Two phases 180 degrees out of phase is technically correct. ------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. Visit our web site at: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/emcs/pstc/ To cancel your subscription, send mail to: majord...@ieee.org with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Michael Garretson: pstc_ad...@garretson.org Dave Heald davehe...@mediaone.net For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: ri...@ieee.org Jim Bacher: j.bac...@ieee.org All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: No longer online until our new server is brought online and the old messages are imported into the new server.