Here in UK, no. It's available at extra installation cost and some people with a big lathe or other machinery have it as do farms and industrial locations. But the typical domestic house doesn't : phases are commonly distributed down the street with progressive phases on each property.
On Wed, Apr 1, 2020 at 6:15 PM Mark Spencer <[email protected]> wrote: > Would a time nut in Europe in a typical single family home have access to > all three phases ? > > If so would there be any benefit to monitoring the frequency of each phase > ? > > > Mark Spencer > > [email protected] > 604 762 4099 > > > On Apr 1, 2020, at 9:50 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > -------- > > In message <[email protected]>, jimlux > writes: > > > >> In EU, where 240V is the default line voltage, I wonder what the 3 > phase > >> distribution is? Is it 415 delta / 240 star > > > > 230V actually, and yes, it is universally 400 delta / 230 star. > > > > That's also why you only ever see an auto-tranformer if somebody > > imported gear (typically computers) from USA. > > > > The most important difference from US is that co-poling of LV and > > MV has almost never been practiced over here, so transients almost > > only happen in thunder. > > > > For the same reason MV (typically 10kV) to LV transformers are > > typically larger than the polemounted "buckets" used in USA. > > > > Her in DK MV/LV's are usually around 1MW, and they will supply > > about a square kilometer of town or ten square kilometers of > > rural landscape. > > > > An advantage of the large number of installations per trafo is that > > load is even across the three phases, so you can run the transformer > > closer to spec than any utility in USA would be happy with. > > > > Protective grounding differs, between countries and in countries, > depending > > on how hard it is to drive a good PE electrode (DK: Trivial, NO: Forget > it) > > > > On the flip side, while we have agreed on the voltage, there are 13 > different > > national standards for the plugs and sockets on consumer-stuff... > > > > -- > > Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 > > [email protected] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 > > FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe > > Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by > incompetence. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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.
