This is not correct.

A sideways panel will give you a cosine waveform instead of a sine wave,

Try it! It works in my chargers to desulphate my battery plates.

A leftie for Australia brought some right handed tools with him and they
work just fine in N.America.
His handsaw has all it's teeth forward and he can't seem to get it to work
here, but the power tools are fine.



"Gordon Shumway" wrote in message
...
If you wire your shop with 240 and accidentally get two US-generated
120 volt lines run in by accident, you can get 240 by using a trick I
learned from an old electrician. Just put each source into its own
fuse box and then turn one of the boxes upside down. That'll invert
one of the two up and down sine waves to down and up, giving you 240.
DO NOT just turn the box sideways, since that'll give you 165 volts
and you'll be limited to just using Canadian tools with it.