On 10/25/2011 3:55 PM, dpb wrote:
On 10/25/2011 3:48 PM, Stormin Mormon wrote:
With one 120 VAC breaker open (at the generator), the well
should stop running, and the amp draw would go to zero. Much
like opening a switch.
...

"Should"???

How can it do anything else; there's no return leg any longer.

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The electrical _potential_ is still there even if there is no current flow.

Wanna know which breaker let go?

Touch one of the lines.


OR think of it this way.

Pee on an electric fence - once.
Just once is all it will take.