On Mon, 29 Jul 2019 20:46:36 -0500 David Wright <deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote:
> On Mon 29 Jul 2019 at 18:00:25 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Monday 29 July 2019 17:26:17 ghe wrote: > > > > > On 7/29/19 1:57 PM, David Wright wrote: > > > > Irrelevant in a domestic setting: it's illegal to have more > > > > than one phase in an ordinary house. > > > > > > FYI, and significantly OT: > > > > > > I don't think that's true in the US. > > IIRC Joe's in the UK. 3-phase there is lethal. 1 is bad enough. > Yes. I'm not an electrician, the only time I've encountered it was at an exhibition, I think in Bahrain, where a number of British companies shared a stand. A three-phase cable with a box on the end was dangled into our stand, along with a request to balance the loads as best we could. The other people were all too cowardly to touch the thing, and I was the youngest there (it was about forty years ago) so I ended up wiring it. Carefully. No, it wasn't live at the time, but everyone who has built an exhibition stand knows how reliable the organisers' electricians are, and how power comes and goes without warning... -- Joe
