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You can't "take in 3 phase and output single phase". That's not how a transformer works. It'd be amazing if it did, as in Nobel Prize winning. In the US most h
by hydrogen18 10y ago
You can't "take in 3 phase and output single phase". That's not how a transformer works. It'd be amazing if it did, as in Nobel Prize winning.
In the US most homes are just tapped to 1 phase, if there are 3 on the pole.
- gfisher 10y agoYeah, you are right. I think what they were trying to say is that the transformers are fed on the high side by one of three phases (as is typical), and that the residential step-down is a split phase 120/240.
- hydrogen18 10y agoYes, that is the normal configuration for power delivery to a residence in most of North America.