On 02/27/2012 04:40 PM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
>> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
>> On Behalf Of Luke S. Crawford
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 04:02:44PM -0800, [email protected] wrote:
>>> the math in sine-wave AC circuits is odd, but a 208v circuit is exactly
> 2
>>> 120v circuits 
> 
> Actually...  I'm quite sure 120V is a single phase (relative to ground), and
> 240V are just two 120V circuits that are directly out of phase with each
> other (2-phase) and 208V is three 120V signals that are each 120deg out of
> phase with each other.
> 
> 120V = 1 phase
> 240V = 2 phase
> 208V = 3 phase

It all depends on how you measure the voltage. 240V split-phase is 120V
phase-to-ground and 240V phase-to-phase. 208V can come as single-phase,
and is 208V phase-to-phase and 120V phase-to-ground.

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-- Skylar Thompson ([email protected])
-- http://www.cs.earlham.edu/~skylar/
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