<[email protected]> wrote: > 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. -------------------------------- There was nothing wrong with the marina's transformer, it was delivering 208VAC.
As a user, you folks faced a double whammy. 1) Line drop due to long distance from transformer and probably minimum wire size. 2) Equipment designed to operate on 240VAC, not 208VAC. Solution is the installation of a small buck-boost transformer at the load. Lew _______________________________________________ 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
