Timeline for Are all electrical sockets of my house in the same phase?
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| May 13, 2017 at 0:56 | answer | added | Level River St | timeline score: -1 | |
| May 12, 2017 at 23:03 | answer | added | Harper - Reinstate Monica | timeline score: 2 | |
| May 12, 2017 at 17:44 | vote | accept | Rishi Sharma | ||
| May 12, 2017 at 10:49 | comment | added | PlasmaHH | @Finbarr: EugeneSh.: Don't be so quick in determining single phase being the norm, just because it is the norm where you live. This is an international site, and in countries like germany it is extremely rare to have a utility company deliver only single phase power to a premise, all get three phase, and the north american two phase 240V arrangement is basically unheard of. | |
| May 12, 2017 at 8:20 | comment | added | Chris H | @analogsystemsrf if you're in the USA or a country with similar electrics. The European system is a single leg at 230V | |
| May 12, 2017 at 7:52 | comment | added | Jonas Schäfer | I am pretty sure that this depends on the location. Here (Germany) for example three-phase supply for homes and flats is normal (e.g. in this house, each flat has three huge breakers in the basement, one for each phase) | |
| May 12, 2017 at 0:05 | answer | added | Paul Smith | timeline score: -1 | |
| May 11, 2017 at 22:58 | comment | added | D.A.S. | It could be some location with 2 phases , one which is split 60 degrees apart instead of 120. @Rishi the reactive current shifts phase while the voltage should be stable. | |
| May 11, 2017 at 22:41 | comment | added | ilkkachu | @Lefty, I suppose there would have to be, since the waveform can't propagate faster than the speed of light. A signal in a cable is slower, let's go with 0.5c. At that speed, an extra 150 m would take 1 μs, or 1/20000 of a 50 Hz cycle, or 0.018 degrees if I got the numbers right. Doesn't sound like very much. | |
| S May 11, 2017 at 22:27 | history | suggested | donjuedo | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 11, 2017 at 22:23 | answer | added | Matija Nalis | timeline score: 1 | |
| May 11, 2017 at 22:15 | answer | added | Peter Green | timeline score: 3 | |
| May 11, 2017 at 22:01 | comment | added | user148909 | Without wishing to put words into the mouth of the OP, I read the question as being, "Is there a small phase-shift between my outlets in different parts of the house, assuming all sockets are supplied by one phase?". Which I think is a much more interesting question than the one that everyone has answered - and is also one I can't answer. | |
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| May 11, 2017 at 21:24 | comment | added | CogitoErgoCogitoSum | All normal single-phase outlets should be on the same phase. However, some homes do in fact have a three-phase connection. These outlets are distinct and easily recognizable though; no chance of confusing them for a single phase outlet. | |
| May 11, 2017 at 21:19 | comment | added | D.A.S. | Phase Dwg is wrong.. it should be 180 deg inverted. for split phase and 120 deg for 3 phase | |
| May 11, 2017 at 21:19 | comment | added | WhatRoughBeast | What is your nationality? | |
| May 11, 2017 at 21:17 | answer | added | D.A.S. | timeline score: 8 | |
| May 11, 2017 at 20:53 | answer | added | hildred | timeline score: 0 | |
| May 11, 2017 at 19:12 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackElectronix/status/862747305405022212 | ||
| May 11, 2017 at 18:26 | comment | added | pasaba por aqui | If you house: is smaller relative to the distance of the light in a few miliseconds; you have not isolation transformers; uses a single company supplier and single phase from it; then, yes, they are in phase or contraphase kn | |
| May 11, 2017 at 18:18 | comment | added | Andy aka | Go take a picture of the power meter you are billed on and post it here. I once lived in an old farm house and it still had a three phase meter. | |
| May 11, 2017 at 17:54 | answer | added | Joren Vaes | timeline score: 19 | |
| May 11, 2017 at 17:49 | comment | added | Trevor_G | @analogsystemsrf normally the phases are divided by area not by outlet. | |
| May 11, 2017 at 17:46 | comment | added | analogsystemsrf | You likely has +-110 power, to provide 220 to appliances. Should the electrician not use both halves for normal room outlets? | |
| May 11, 2017 at 17:45 | answer | added | Olin Lathrop | timeline score: 30 | |
| May 11, 2017 at 17:45 | answer | added | Trevor_G | timeline score: 4 | |
| May 11, 2017 at 17:38 | comment | added | Finbarr | Domestic properties are normally single phase, but larger ones may have three. Without seeing your meter and/or fuse/breaker panel it's impossible to say. | |
| May 11, 2017 at 17:38 | comment | added | Eugene Sh. | In case you have a single-phase supply - yes. Sometimes homes have more than one phase supply for special needs. | |
| May 11, 2017 at 17:36 | history | asked | Rishi Sharma | CC BY-SA 3.0 |