In article ,
Gerard Bok wrote:
His 240 volts are likely to be one leg of a 380 or 400 volts
3-phase system.
Kill it's neutral and the lights all shine. Briefly :-)

How? Remove the neutral and you have no current flow in a single phase
system like all houses in the UK have. You only get your '380 or 400
volts' between phases in a three phase installation.

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Dave Plowman London SW
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