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Re: L5-30 wire for 220V?I find reading about the electrical codes etc in the US fascinating the variety of connectors and wiring possibilities. I know in indutrial premises similar connections to the ones you describe here were available but they tended to be hard wired or used a device specific plug. All this is not to say we don't get some interesting wiring! apart from the normal reversed connections no earth excetera, multi phase stuffis where the real fun starts, one of the most common bad ones is connecting together the 3 hots on a 3-phase plug then connecting the other end to a single phase supply, ta ta neutral wire when someone sees a potentional 63A per phase plug and uses it as such and the poor old neutral ends up as a fuse. The other favourite here is mixing the colours on a 3-phase tie in, for years neutral on a single phase was blue and on a 3-phase blue was one of the hots, black was neutral on the 3-phase, nowadays on 3-phase blue is a neutral the hots are brown, grey and black so you can imagine the chaos if someone isn't careful and ties in on an older service with one set of colours while using the other!! ( 415V in the wrong place is NOT good trust me!!)As has been said many time on these forums if you don't know how to don't do it and if your not sure meter it, but first learn what you need to see with the meter and where it needs to be seen. ANY doubt don't touch and find an alternative. G PS cheap old 1kw par cans are your friend for putting test loads onto a suspect circuit.
Re: L5-30 wire for 220V?
I find reading about the electrical codes etc in the US fascinating the variety of connectors and wiring possibilities. I know in indutrial premises similar connections to the ones you describe here were available but they tended to be hard wired or used a device specific plug. All this is not to say we don't get some interesting wiring! apart from the normal reversed connections no earth excetera, multi phase stuffis where the real fun starts, one of the most common bad ones is connecting together the 3 hots on a 3-phase plug then connecting the other end to a single phase supply, ta ta neutral wire when someone sees a potentional 63A per phase plug and uses it as such and the poor old neutral ends up as a fuse. The other favourite here is mixing the colours on a 3-phase tie in, for years neutral on a single phase was blue and on a 3-phase blue was one of the hots, black was neutral on the 3-phase, nowadays on 3-phase blue is a neutral the hots are brown, grey and black so you can imagine the chaos if someone isn't careful and ties in on an older service with one set of colours while using the other!! ( 415V in the wrong place is NOT good trust me!!)
As has been said many time on these forums if you don't know how to don't do it and if your not sure meter it, but first learn what you need to see with the meter and where it needs to be seen. ANY doubt don't touch and find an alternative. G
PS cheap old 1kw par cans are your friend for putting test loads onto a suspect circuit.
