> [...], especially since most electrical installations (even domestic)
> are 3-phase.

This, I believe, must be location-specific.  In North America, it is
usual for domestic electrical feeds to be only two-phase (that is, they
are the two sides of a centre-tapped secondary - the two hot wires are
180 degrees out of phase with one another).

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