On Wed, 10 Aug 2016 22:26:03 +0100, Tekkie® wrote:

James Wilkinson posted for all of us...



And a failed neutral would give a compressor zero volts across it.


Really?

Oh you're in America. Do you have some weird 2 phase compressors? Over here in the UK, you need live and neutral to give 240V. Remove either and the compressor simply goes off due to zero voltage.

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