On Sat, 29 Aug 2015 13:42:47 +0100, ARW wrote:

"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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In article ,
Tough Guy no. 1265 wrote:
My father has said he has a 415V sticker on the feed into his meter box.
From what he's told me there is the normal arrangement of master fuse,
meter, then into the house to the consumer unit. The house was built in
1985ish and is detached. I've never seen inside the meterbox myself,
only the consumer unit, which looked like a normal run of the mill row
of circuit breakers with one master at the end, 100A. If there were
three phases in the meterbox I'd expect his description to include a lot
more.

You don't need three phase for 415v - only two. And at one point it was
common to install two phases to allow electric heating.

Was that not split phase?

It is not the same thing as two lines from a 3 phase as you have 460V on a
split line.

Rarer than a 15 year old virgin in Rotherham but they do exist.

This is in the Scottish Highlands and the house was built around 1985. Is it likely to have two phases there? It's not in the middle of nowhere, it's in a village with about 400 houses.

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