[time-nuts] Power glitch - Sat morning

[Didier Juges]

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 <mark at alignedsolutions.com>
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 <chris at chriscaudle.org> 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
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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