On Apr 28, 3:05*am, "Jon Danniken"
wrote:
mm wrote:
On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 20:29:45 -0700 (PDT), Larry Fishel
wrote:

Maybe he had his own transformer? (Or maybe they're using the term
"high-voltage" very loosely?)

Yeah, the latter especially. *Some people talk like anything
controlled by the electric company is high voltage.

Motor nomenclature refers to 240VAC as "high voltage". *This in reference to
120VAC, of course.

Jon

Yeah and too often as 'phases'! Although the two ends of a centre
tapped and grounded 240 winding being actually (and most often in
domestic service) the two 120 ends of one single phase!