On 29.07.19 20:46, David Wright wrote: > On Mon 29 Jul 2019 at 18:00:25 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Monday 29 July 2019 17:26:17 ghe wrote: > > > > > On 7/29/19 1:57 PM, David Wright wrote: > > > > Irrelevant in a domestic setting: it's illegal to have more than one > > > > phase in an ordinary house. > > > > > > FYI, and significantly OT: > > > > > > I don't think that's true in the US. > > IIRC Joe's in the UK. 3-phase there is lethal. 1 is bad enough.
Here in Australia we also have only "240v", generally closer to 230v nowadays, and domestic 3 phase is no big deal, just a couple of thousand dollars more, as it's just a 3 phase cable, 3 fuses on the pole instead of 1, and then what you want to cram in your switchboard. Good for a big aircon in a big house on a 43°C day. (110°F) People who have it and a nice big PV array on the roof are allowed to feed much more power back into the grid than someone with only one phase. Now that the feed-in tariff is better, some consumers have close to zero electricity bill, despite using grid power at night. (Much cheaper than batteries.) Should have no power-line signal leakage on my new build, it's off-grid, with a mile to the nearest neighbour. ;-) Erik
