When you feed an electrical moteur with that, it sounds like a Harley Davidson :) It's a feature!
On Tue, Mar 31, 2020, 10:58 AM Mark Spencer <[email protected]> wrote: > A few decades ago I was chatting with an electrical engineer during some > down time during a long project in Canada. We started talking about > residential AC power. > > Reportedly in some multi tenant buildings in Canada the individual suites > may be supplied with two phases from a 208 / 120 volt three phase system. > I never got around to measuring the voltage from my dryer or range plugs in > my condo before I moved into a single family home that has a 240 / 120 two > pole / single phase supply. > > > > Mark S > > > On Mar 31, 2020, at 7:53 AM, Chris Caudle <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> On Tue, March 31, 2020 8:28 am, Bob kb8tq wrote: > >> If you have a two phase circuit, are both phases of interest? > > > > If you are referring to residential power, a single how would be single > > phase center-tapped, as far as I know you never get two phases to a > single > > residence. The houses in a neighborhood may be split up among a high > > power three phase feed, and an industrial facility will have a three > phase > > feed and have to balance the loads within the facility, but house wiring > > all assumes single phase (either half of the transformer secondary for > > 120V loads, or across the full winding for 240V loads). > > > > With that design I would expect there to only be as much difference > > between the two legs as you have difference in loading between the two > > halves of the transformer winding, since they share a common primary. > > > > -- > > Chris Caudle > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > > To unsubscribe, go to > http://lists.febo.com/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts_lists.febo.com > > and follow the instructions there. > > > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to > http://lists.febo.com/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts_lists.febo.com > and follow the instructions there. > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to http://lists.febo.com/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts_lists.febo.com and follow the instructions there.
