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Yes it will spin the same. If you have an old mechanical meter and flip it upside down it will run backwards, but I don't recommend it.Underground my friend.
Give it up.
There is no way to teach such material in this way.
I understand what you have written, but that's only because I have a working understanding of the North American standard single phase 240V standard. (60 hertz nominal)
Read your post back and pretend that you don't understand the concepts. Not so, easy is it.
I have a pamphlet on basic house wiring that was a great help to me with its diagrams and charts.
Such material can often be found in hardware store electrical departments.
You almost asnwered my original question in this answer.
I wanted to know how the power meter worked.
Does it spin the same for for your 120W load as two 60W loads spread over the two legs?
People are very touchy about electricity, and rightfully so.
Good luck getting out of this thread in one piece.
No good deed goes unpunished.
a light is an outlet except that a light is a luminere not a light!
A lamp is what most people call a bulb. LOL
As far "not getting out of this thread alive" and people being sensitive, I don't really care and am not out to prove myself. I've literally forgotten more than most people will ever know about electricity. Stuff that makes your head spin like formulas for capacitive reactance and all the other irritating calc and trig shit. I could pick it all up again pretty easy, but only if I needed too. But I don't.
I know you guys think this stuff is scary, but try crawling around in the vault of piece of switchgear that's the size of tractor trailer with copper buses the size of 2 x 6s energized with 480. It's the wierdest feeling. Your whole head feels statically and the buzzing in the air will drive you nuts!
Lets end this quick and i'll put it in big words
FIRST.. YES WE'RE BILLED BY KILO WATT HR.. IN THE U.S.A,
BUTTTTTTTTTT
240V RUNS AT A LESSER AMP WHICH MEANS IT PRODUCES LESS KILO WATTS!!!!!! HERE LOOK AT THISSS ....... KW IS $$$$ KW IS $$$$
240V MORE.. 120V LESS..
SECONDLY
you responded that "your billed by voltage or current"
GUESS WHAT VOLTAGE IS CURRENT
but you wouldnt know that eh.....
You are billed by KW hr. That is 1000 watts per hour. You are billed by the power used, regardless of voltage or current
THIRD
take a load meter and put in on the white or black you instructed...
where at the panel
well.....
you wont get a reading testing the white wire... unhook it at the panel and
you'll fry everything..why dont you try that and prove me wrong..
and if you test your neutral at the fixture there's load no on it.
YOU NEED TO CHECK YOURSELF BEFORE YOU WRECK YOURSELF
Not at the panel, at the ballast. right before the ballast. No need to disconnect anything, the clamp meter goes around the wire, you wont blow anything. I was referring to 240V applications, I have never run my lights on 120
here when I googled electrical mythsI note that in the US you have a 110-120 volt system whereas ours in Britain is 240 volts. Does this have any bearing on how much power identical appliances use in the two countries? James de Beresford, Nov. 2002
Good question. Despite the difference voltage, energy use is the same. You use more volts, but you also use less amps, so it evens out. For example, in the U.S. a device might use 120 volts x 2 amps = 240 watts. In Britain, that same device would use 240 volts x 1 amp = 240 watts. So energy use is the same.
And of course, costs are the same, because you're charged by the kilowatt-hour, not by voltage. (Well, the costs won't be exactly the same, because there's a different price for electricity in Britain....)
tRICHROME... explain this. went to pool pump reads 208 volt using 9.6 amps... THEN 230v uses 8.8 amps.
UR SO UNEDUCATED
GUESS WHAT... HIGHER VOLTAGE REQUIRES LESS AMPS. WHICH IS $
MAYBE YOU SHOULD REREAD WE ARE TALKING PUMPSSSSS. AND A,C
HIGHER YOU ARE THE LESS YOU UNDERSTAND:RastaBong:
You can get an ampere rating on the neutral conductor anyway. That's another myth that a lot of people, electricians too, believe.
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