At Green Cove Springs Marina, south of Jacksonville FL, where I lived for 8 years they used two legs of a three phase transformer for the "240". It was actually 208 when it left the transformer and because of cheap wiring dropped to about 195 by the time it got to me. I only used my welder, which is designed to run on 208 if desired, and my air compressor (which has a blower fan directed onto the motor) which worked OK on it, but several neighbors had burned up equipment because of the low voltage.
I guess they were just too cheap to install the proper transformer. Norm S/V Bandersnatch Lying Julington Creek FL N30 07.68 W081 38.47 > I have the wild leg 3phase in my small commercial building in Spencer, NY. > We just avoid that bar in the panel boxes as we have no 3PH equipment. > Thinking about it, I will check to see if they are charging me extra for it. > Lee Haefele > > In certain parts of the rural SouthWest, the utility distributes > > 240VAC/3PH/60HZ power. > > > > To obtain 120VAC, they center tap one phase to obtain the 120/240VAC > > Edison. > > > > The above is known as "Wild Leg Delta" and can cause some interesting > > problems, if not careful. > _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://liveaboardonline.com/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardonline.com/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
