Please, help me be sure I am thinking correctly. To hook up a 220 vac
transformer to the main, I need use only the two hot legs, is this
correct?
The third leg is for grounding purposes only, is this correct.
Rick/K5IAR
That's correct. Just pull the power off the two hot wires, and leave the
neutral floating.
I run 220 volts with neutral to my homebrew transmitter, but everything
inside is 110v. I use one side of the line to neutral for the filaments,
vfo, etc. The other side powers the modulator and final amp plate supplies.
That way, if the modulator and final pull down the voltage under load, the
voltage at other side will actually rise slightly instead of sagging.
Better for the filaments to brighten up under modulation, than to dim down.
NEVER strap the neutral directly to ground anywhere except right at the
service entrance near the meter and breaker panel.
It is unsafe, a violation of the electrical code, and even if it doesn't
develop into a hazardous condition right away, it will induce all kinds of
mysterious hum problems into audio and rf equipment due to the ground loop.
Don k4kyv
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