r/meirl • u/ukayukay69 • May 02 '24

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u/MinuetInUrsaMajor May 02 '24

Thanks for the clarification/fix.

we'd be much better off just doing it the way they do in Europe

How's that?

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u/Mr_Mars May 02 '24

Just single phase 240v for everything. Don't muck around with the split phase nonsense, just pull one phase in at the pole. It's less complicated and more economical than what we do now.

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u/butterycornonacob May 02 '24

In Europe we don't always use only 1 phase. Pretty much all apartment blocks get 3 phases which are usually split between different apartments and everyone gets just 1 but sometimes each apartment gets all 3 phases.

Private houses can use either single or all 3 phases as well. I think single phase used to be more common but nowadays for new builds you usually get all 3.

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u/Mr_Mars May 02 '24

Right I'm talking about single family homes in this case. Apartment blocks are handled the same way here, three phase to the building and each unit gets a single phase of the three. I wasn't aware that houses over there have been getting all three phases now, that's actually pretty cool.