Hi Brian,
Think of 220 in your house this way (I am assuming you are not in a
commercial facility with 3 phase power)
At the power pole the secondary of the stepdown transformer is 240V
AC end to end with a centertap. The centertap is grounded and
becomes the neutral in your main power panel (where ground (green)
and neutral (white) are combined. So running around your house are
various 120V circuits some on one side of that transformer (often the
BLACK wire) and some on the other (The RED wire in multiconductor
cables only, everywhere else its always back.). (In your main panel
normally every other breaker on each side is on the same leg i.e. 1,
3, 5 etc. The others are on the other side or leg as its commonly
called. That arrangement facilitates 240V breakers like your range,
water heater, etc.
The only way to find the 240 is by the measurements described
earlier. Its not good form or code to get one leg here and one leg
there, a 3 wire with ground cable should always feed the 220
equipment. Black, Red, White, and bare (green).
A short means you connected a hot side to neutral OR both 120V hots
from each side or leg together. That will make big fireworks and
should be avoided at all costs.
Hope that helps.
Larry W3LW
Your exciter runs on one 120V circuit and the neutral.At 05:02 PM
11/4/2006, you wrote:
Well, I knew my brain had not gone completely dead. Turns out this is
a phasing issue using two different circuits. One is a regular 110
volt going to my exciter. The other is one side of 220 for the 610.
I figure that I used the wrong side of the 220 to be in phase with the
110 used on my exciter. The 610 fired up just fine until I hooked up
the coax for the exciter, then a dead short. I hate to sound ignorant
about such things, but I need to take a rest from it and start over
when my mind is clear. Got a lot going on trying to get my big iron
on the air again after 6 years...
73 - Brian
On 11/4/06, A.R.S. - W5AMI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Trying to get a BC610 going and need to hook to one leg of existing
220 outlet, and now I'm just confused to say the least. The 610E does
not have any polarity indicators on the 110vac AC chassis plug. I'm
using a 3 wire 220 outlet with ground, hot and neutral. In order to
get 110, I have to use ground for one side. Which of the other sides
do I use in order to also hook up a heavy Earth ground to the 610
without causing a short?! I'm assuming the hot (black) wire...
tnx - Brian
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