Thanks Larry, and Gary!!

Your posts set the record straight. The reason I asked is that somewhere in my dark past I was told that it was
for reasons of economy. The reason being was that the meter *was said* only to read current through the high
side and that value was simply doubled in calculating your usage. Meaning that if you were to only use one side
at any given time then you true usage would be exactly half of what you were being charged. (so that is just a
fable)

So thanks again
Bill

Larry Jaques wrote:

On Sun, 26 Oct 2003 05:59:16 -0500, Bill
brought forth from the murky depths:



Scott Moore wrote:

However, that would also defeat the idea of ballancing the load there, and make
it that much more likely that you will trip a breaker while operating that nice
arc welder.

That's an interesting comment Scott. I have oh so often heard people speak of balancing the load. What are
the concerns about this balanced load issue?

If you're going to run several 120v machines at once, you try to
balance the current draw between the legs so you don't pop breakers.
For 240v, make separate runs from separate breakers. When I removed
the 240v baseboard heaters in this new (to me) house, I had several
spare breakers. I ran 3 lines for the larger shop equipment (all WW)
in 3 areas of the shop and it worked fine. The table saw, bandsaw,
dust collector, and lights are all on separate circuits.

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