From: Colin Whittaker (grimnar at domain redbrick.dcu.ie)
Date: Wed 08 Sep 1999 - 16:17:55 IST
John P . Looney blurted the following on Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 02:34:12PM +0100 :
> Anyone know why you have to balance phases, if your UPS has a three-phase
> intake, and single phase outlet ?
is that one single phase out let or several seperate single phase outlets
> As in, I was helping power off a big machine, and it's disks (drawing
> about 100amps in total), and the electrician was giving out about the
> phases being differently loaded - the machine & it's disks were on the
> high phase, and loads of other machines were on the other phases.
In general in any power electric system balance is a good thing (tm)
-- Si hoc signum legere potes, operis boni in rebus Latinus alacribus et fructuosis potiri potes!
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