Homes in NJ that use well water instead of public water.

[PDD]

Originally Posted by Boo_Urns

Are you not tapping both windings of a transformer, to get two phases, 180-degrees apart, with an RMS voltage delta of 240 volts between them?


In any case, the reason I bring this up is, I lived in a neighborhood once where one of the two transformer windings had a problem, and I had only one "phase" working in my home. The electric company considered this lower priority, as I still had "partial power". I reminded them that "partial power" still meant no water for me.

Just a mix up in terms that's all. It's just not called two phase.

As an example if you lose one leg of three phase power what are you left with? Single phase power.

Confusing isn't it?

[Boo_Urns]

Fair enough. In engineering school, we labeled them as separate phases, because you really are pulling two phases from the transformer. But I'll stand to be corrected


Back to the topic, the only other thing I'll add is that it is kind of surprising what towns / neighborhoods in NJ use well water. When explaining this to friends that live in the city, they usually associate well water with something from "Little House on the Prairie"; they assume you must live on a farm or way out in Appalachia. In reality, you can be in a suburban town; commutable to NYC, and still have well water in NJ.

[patjjth]

Thanks everyone. You all were really helpful.