From: a t e c 7 7 "atec 77 at hotmail dot on
Marts wrote:
> "Mad-Biker" <mad-biker(a)westnet(Panties).com.au> wrote...
>
>> A mate around the corner found his house, in deep residential area has
>> phase 3 for some unknown reason!
>
> My joint, built in 1946 (yep, way younger than Theo) has two phases. Any guesses
> as to why?
>
>
perhaps built with an external kitchen latter fleshed in ?
or because of requirements and money , cant be sure without pictures
From: a t e c 7 7 "atec 77 at hotmail dot on
Marts wrote:
> a t e c 7 7 wrote...
>
>> Perhaps if you cleaned the sand from your ears ?
>
> Didn't know that there were talking newsreaders (other than those on the TV...)
>
>
did you hear it ?
From: Theo Bekkers on
Marts wrote:
> "Mad-Biker" <mad-biker(a)westnet(Panties).com.au> wrote...
>
>> A mate around the corner found his house, in deep residential area
>> has phase 3 for some unknown reason!
>
> My joint, built in 1946 (yep, way younger than Theo) has two phases.
> Any guesses as to why?

Country power! I found out two months after the installation I could have
had two phases. Damn!

Theo


From: Marts on
a t e c 7 7 wrote...

> > My joint, built in 1946 (yep, way younger than Theo) has two phases. Any guesses
> > as to why?

> perhaps built with an external kitchen latter fleshed in ?
> or because of requirements and money , cant be sure without pictures

For the electric stove. One phase for the oven, the other for the other heating
elements. From that lighting came off one phase and GPOs off the other.

Weird the other week. During some really bad weather, we lost a phase off the
tranny up the road. One phase, the lights, was running at 185v, the other at
around 34v. Strange to go for a drive up the road to see lots of houses with
everything blazing away and others in total darkness. Became annoying when the
next night it was like that still....

--
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From: Theo Bekkers on
Marts wrote:
> a t e c 7 7 wrote...
>
>>> My joint, built in 1946 (yep, way younger than Theo) has two
>>> phases. Any guesses as to why?
>
>> perhaps built with an external kitchen latter fleshed in ?
>> or because of requirements and money , cant be sure without
>> pictures
>
> For the electric stove. One phase for the oven, the other for the
> other heating elements. From that lighting came off one phase and
> GPOs off the other.

That was unusual. My parents house was built (by dad) in the early 50s and
later got an electric stove. It was common then for stoves to be two-phase
with, as you said, one phase for the cook-tops and one for the oven. The
house however, had three phases. The third phase ran the lights and the
powerpoints, as they would in any single-phase house.

Theo


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