On Wednesday 18 January 2006 19:55, Meatwad wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: <snip>
> To further clatrify, we do not use two-phase power in the US for > residential use. Only single and - rarely - three phase systems. It is two phase is indeed used for washer/dryers/electric stoves in the US. I've never seen 3 phase go to a house, but I can see how some large homes might get 3 phase service and split it into 2 and 1 phase feeds. > confusing but that the way it is. In a nutshell, sending two legs of > power from the transformer on the pole, each 180 degrees out of phase > with each other, into the home is still single-phase. Just two legs of > it in a very efficient manner. My electric power engineering degree doesn't like that paragraph, not so much because its wrong, its really not, its just mathematically really ugly =) 2+2+2+2+2+2+2= 14 =2*7... -- Steve _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
