Thanks. That helps me refrain from frying a vacuum cleaner.

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"John Grabowski" wrote in message
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The OP question is if one leg to ground provides 120 volts to run a
device like a vacuum cleaner, or pressure washer.


*No Chris. At 440 volts one leg to ground would be way over 200
volts. As
you said there should be a 120 volt service receptacle within 50'.
That
requirement has been in the mechanical code before it made it into the
electrical code.