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Old Aug 5, 2007 | 12:13 pm
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I have never heard of a US residence getting 3 phase electrical power but I guess it happens (the grow-lamp people or large apartments). Usually its 2 legs of the 3 phases. There is 3 phase coming in the neighborhood so your neighbors may be getting different phases than you. I guess you could run extension cords and experiment but I would not recommend it. Basically it is much more efficient for the power companies to transmit 3 phase (or six phase)electrical power than only a single phase.

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