Three phases are not combined on one wire. If you will look at the power poles
around you you will notice that everywhere there are three hot wires on
insulators each wire carrying one phase.
There may be one or two uninuslated wires, usually at the top of the poles for
ground and lightening protection.
Power substations also usually have everything in sets of three but I suppose
they could handle all three phases in one transformer box.
I imagine putting all three phases on one wire would result in catastrophic
release of Magic Smoke.
Norm
S/V Bandersnatch
Lying Julington Creek
30 07.695N 081 38.484W
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Sent: 3/12/2009 12:04:10 PM
Subject: Re: [Liveaboard] Euro electricity
Jim, I think my question is: on the transmission lines is each phase on a
different wire as I thought, or is everything out of the generator fed to a
transformer and distributed on two wires to be broken down at another
transformer. It seems to me that adding or subtracting all of the over lapping
phases would be counter productive and not work, but I was recently told
otherwise and have trouble understanding how the three phases could be combined
on one conductor.
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