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- From: markz@ssc.com (Mark Zenier)
- Subject: Re: making 110V into 220v
- Organization: SSC, Inc., Seattle, WA
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 05:28:00 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.052800.11679@ssc.com>
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- Darin Latimer (dlatimer@iris4.chem.arizona.edu) wrote:
- : In article <C19oyE.GnM@panix.com>, dannyb@panix.com (Daniel Burstein) writes:
- : |> Heavy duty appliances, such as electrical dryers, stoves, ovens, or
- : |> (large) air conditioners will run on 220V. They get this by feeding both
- : |> legs of the electrical supply (which are 110V in opposite phase) to the
- : ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- : Again, usually three legs at 120V each, 120 degrees out of phase with
- : respect to each other.
-
- NO. In this residential neighborhood, the distribution transformers are
- fed with a single phase and have a center tapped winding. So the two
- phases are 180 degrees apart.
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- In an industrial area, or on a campus, that would not necessarily be
- true.
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- Mark Zenier markz@ssc.wa.com
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- 26 kV, trees, above ground wiring and 95 MPH wind storms don't mix.
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