Re: single to three phase conversion

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Original poster: Ed Phillips <evp-at-pacbell-dot-net> 

Tesla list wrote:
 >
 > Original poster: eric <hydrogen18-at-hydrogen18-dot-com>
 >
 > 2 phase 180 degrees out of phase isnt hard to generate. just wind the
 > primary clockwise and the secondary counterclockwise. some isolation
 > transformers might be set up like this.

	Just try to generate a rotating field with "2 phase 180 degrees" and
you'll discover why it's still single phase.  Read Tesla's original
publication explaining polyphase systems to get a most consise and
beautiful explanation of the matter.

Ed