Jim Thomson wrote:
> Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2011 10:51:58 -0700
> From: Jim Brown<jim@audiosystemsgroup.com>
> Subject: Re: [Amps] what is a 4 wire 240VAC service?
>
>
> On 4/3/2011 7:57 AM, Charles Harpole wrote:
>> Maybe being in Thailand, where 230vac is supplied with TWO wires, makes me
>> ask.... what is 4-wire 240vac service?
>
> ## In Thailand,.... and the UK, etc,,..sure they give you 230 vac from the
> street..BUT one of those
> two wires is GRNDED at the pole. In essence, you have 1 hot and one
> neutral/grnd coming in off
> the street. So you are getting UB balanced 230 vac, Here in nA, we get
> 240 vac balanced power....and the sec
> of the pole pig is the neutral..which is also bonde to grnd....and also
> bonded to the return wire of the 14.4 kv.
For those outside of the USA the following is how we do it in the
U.S.A.: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split_phase
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