Re: How to determine three-phase power

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Original poster: "Zagarus Rashkae by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <arbitrarily_random-at-yahoo-dot-com>


--- Tesla list <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com> wrote:
 > Original poster: "Ed Phillips by way of Terry Fritz
 > <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <evp-at-pacbell-dot-net>
 >
 > Tesla list wrote:
 >  >
 >  > Original poster: "Zagarus Rashkae by way of Terry
 > Fritz
 > <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>"
 > <arbitrarily_random-at-yahoo-dot-com>
 >  >
 >  > Hi All,
 >  >
 >  > I want to get a three-phase feed into my house
 > for DC
 >  > tesla coiling and I decided to do some research.
 > I
 >  > looked out the window and saw 3 wires on the
 > power
 >  > poles that come down my street. Going down the
 > street
 >  > I saw that consecutive pole pigs were connected
 > to
 >  > different lines on th power poles. Now to make
 > sure, I
 >  > have to get a neighbor that's supposedly using a
 >  > different phase of the 3-phase line and measure
 >  > voltage from my house to their house via really
 > long
 >  > power cord... :-) But before I do that, I want to
 > ask
 >  > the Tesla list if my speculation is correct.
 >  >
 >  > Thanks,
 >  >
 >  > Chris
 >
 > 	It's very unlikely that you are dealing with
 > three-phase power.  The
 > different loads are connected to different legs of
 > the power line in
 > order to balance the load.
 >
 > Ed
 >
 >

Well I think that the loads are connected to balalnce
the power too, that's why I suspected three phase. Why
three power lines, otherwise? It obviousely can't be
two hots and an neutral.

Chris

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