On Jan 13, 12:58*pm, George wrote:
On 1/13/2013 11:27 AM, wrote:



On Jan 13, 11:07 am, George wrote:
On 1/13/2013 10:20 AM, wrote:

On Jan 13, 10:01 am, wrote:
On Sun, 13 Jan 2013 05:57:42 -0600, wrote:
A large store downtown has a heavy FOUR wire triplex feeding the
building. *3 wires are black insulated, the other is the bare neutral.

The thing that caught my attention to it, is that the 4th wire is not
connected to anything. *All the triplex I've ever seen is 3 wire, two
are insulated, one is bare. *That's for a standard 240V single phase
system.

Im thinking that this cable was intended to be for three phase wiring.
Three hot, and the neutral. *Is this right?
Maybe that building once had 3 phase service, or they just had that
cable on hand when they wired it, and used what they had...

That says "3 phase".
Three hots and a neutral.

Did you read the part where he says the "neutral"
is not connected to anything? *Sounds like a support
wire to me.

The version on the newsserver I use does not mention anything about the
"neutral" being unconnected.

The confusion is that he first says there are 3 black
wires and a bare neutral. *Then he says the "4th wire"
is not connected to anything. *Since he was talking
about 3+1 and then says "the 4th wire", I took that
4th wire to be the bare neutral. * It's not clear what
the 4th wire is. *If the 4th wire is one of the other
three, then I would think he would have said:

There are 3 blacks, one of them is unconnected and
there is a bare neutral. *That is the way the rest of you
seem to be interpreting it. *Hopefully he'll clarify.

It must have been the other "trader" who argued the point that it was
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Now you're adding to the obfuscation, implying that I
argued the point that "it" was the neutral. What "it" are you
refering to? The OP wrote:

"3 wires are black insulated, the other is the bare neutral. "

So there is an "it" and it's the OP saying it's the neutral,
not me.

Then he says:

"the 4th wire is not connected to anything. "

So we have 3+1. Now maybe YOU are a mind reader,'
but it's not clear what the 4th unconnected wire he's referring to
is. I took it to mean the bare wire. gfretw
thinks it's 3 phase and all are actually connected.

You, well, it's not clear what you think because all
you seem more interested in is trying to pick apart my
interpretation, which I believe is a perfectly reasonable
one, because the OP was unclear on what the 4th
wire is that he's referring to.