On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 08:46:36PM -0500, David Wright 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.
Domestic 3 phase is common in much of the world, including
(specifically) the UK. There's nothing illegal about it, it's just
prohibitively expensive if (as in most of the US) 3 phase isn't already
provisioned. (E.g., in my area many people would need to eat the cost of
more than a quarter mile of new poles and wires if they wanted 3 phase,
and there's basically zero advantage unless you're trying to run
industrial electric motors in your house for some reason.)
On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 02:30:50PM +0200, Matthew Crews wrote:
How do you figure? In the US most 240V outlets are 3 phase, and they are
relatively common. You need them for most ovens, washing machines, and
electric cars.
That's split single phase, not 3 phase.
