30 AMP Connection at home
The owner's manual says that you need a 30amp connection in order to run the AC. Does this mean I would need to wire my house with a 30amp receptacle in order to operate the AC while prepping and ...
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DrewE wrote:RasMouSein wrote:
Haa I figured I wasn't crazy hehe, that it can be dangerous.
And when talking about a broken neutral,
it reminds me work, as a Lineman, a broken neutral going to the house is a very dangerous situation.
Give high amps to less resistive load, like tv's.
A broken neutral at a split phase supply (or, I suppose, at a three phase Y supply) is indeed bad news.
These days, though, a TV would probably not suffer any damage at all; most have international power supplies that work on just about any mains voltage from 100-240V.
Kind of cool what the Y will do without a wired neutral. It’s not unusual to use a virtual neutral, which is just the center of the Y without a neutral feed from the power source. Works fine for something like a motor or heater with the same load on each phase. But if you change the load on one phase, the line to neutral voltage on the others changes. This is the same thing that happens on an RV that loses neutral.
I worked on a setup that had neon bulbs as phase indicators. When manufacturing moved overseas, the bulbs started exhibiting a phenomenon where they gassed materials inside the bulb in storage, and when power was first applied they would arc internally which created a load on that phase. Burned up a lot of equipment before we figured it out.
