In article >,
hahabogus > wrote:

> Miche > wrote in
> on Jul Fri 2009
> am
>
> > In article >,
> > bob in nz > wrote:

> >> BTW - we run on 240v in New Zealand.
> >
> > 230V, 50Hz.
> >
> > 3-phase is 400V.
>
> each household phase is around 110v-120v...most houses use 2 phases in their
> fusebox/braker
> panel. Each side of the fusebox is a different phase. This allows the
> creating the 240 v feeds to
> various stuff. If you lose lights oe power in some numerous rooms but not
> others, it can be a loss of
> a phase.

Yeah, you guys need polyphase to do the really interesting stuff. I
love wiring three-phase plugs. It's technical and pedantic but I like
technical and pedantic.

> Usually the loss of 1 phase or half the power in your house is a outside the
> house issue.
>
> I know this as a cruel winter storm caused me to lose 1 phase...drove me nuts
> trying to figure why
> half the plugs in some rooms would work and why the fridge wouldn't work but
> the stove light
> would.
>
> A IBEW lineman guy came out and reconnected the broken splice up the pole
> and viola lights
> everywhere.
> IBEW...international brotherhood of electrical workers, which being a
> telephone blue collar worker
> myself, I also belong to.
>
> I work with DC whereas he works in AC. I work with amps high enough to scare
> electrians but only
> 50v. It's the amps that kill and do bodily damage.

Yeah, I know. Fortunately my test rig is all voltage and very little
current. I do tests up to 40,000 volts.

Miche

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Electricians do it in three phases