The commercial installations that I've worked in had 3 phase. Unlike the residential power at 240V, it is 208 V and 110V to ground
--- On Thu, 3/12/09, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > From: [email protected] <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Liveaboard] Euro electricity > To: [email protected] > Date: Thursday, March 12, 2009, 12:03 PM > Jim, I think my question is: on the transmission lines is > each phase on a > different wire as I thought, or is everything out of the > generator fed to a > transformer and distributed on two wires to be broken down > at another > transformer. It seems to me that adding or subtracting all > of the over lapping phases > would be counter productive and not work, but I was > recently told otherwise > and have trouble understanding how the three phases could > be combined on one > conductor. > **************Need a job? Find employment help in your > area. > (http://yellowpages.aol.com/search?query=employment_agencies&ncid=emlcntusyelp00000005) > _______________________________________________ > Liveaboard mailing list > [email protected] > To adjust your membership settings over the web > http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard > To subscribe send an email to > [email protected] > > To unsubscribe send an email to > [email protected] > The archives are at > http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ > > To search the archives > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > > The Mailman Users Guide can be found here > http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
