[Amps] RE 220 V

[R.Measures]

>NOT TRUE.

**  It's true on my SB-220.  When wired for 240V, the third wire (green) 
goes to the neutral on the 240v 3-conductor plug and the other end of 
this wire goes to chassis.  On a 3-conductor 240v circuit, the ground is 
the neutral.    0v = 0v.
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>There may be older vintages of the SB-220.  But I looked at an undated
>SB-220 schematic and an SB-221 schematic dated 1976.  Both of these clearly
>show GROUND to the chassis - the wire is labelled GREEN and the picto-gram
>of the plug clearly shows it connected to the ground lug.  When wired for
>240V, there is no need for a neutral on an SB-220/221.
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>If in fact early SB-220s wired neutral to the chassis, they should be
>changed.  Just because they did it at one time doesn't make it correct
>today.  The Collins KWS-1 shipped with neutral to the chassis and they
>should all be changed.  Lots of Johnson and Heath gear shipped with those
>deadly fuse plugs - they should be changed!
>
>We need to move on.
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>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "R.Measures" <r at somis.org>
>To: <Ku4uk at aol.com>; "AMPS" <amps at contesting.com>
>Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 9:25 PM
>Subject: Re: [Amps] RE 220 V
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>> >No one has said anything about the heathkit SB 22O wiring. It has two hot
>> >wires to transformer and neutral to chassis
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>> Neutral does not go to the chassis when a 220 is wired for 120V, but
>> wired for 240v it does
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