Longshadow wrote:
We are 120v, as is Canada and Mexico.
Basically only consumer things that are 240V are clothes dryers, electric ovens, house air conditioners, electric heating systems, and maybe a few other large power things.
TVs, radios, computers, coffee grinders, electric frying pans, window air conditioners, drills, circular saws, hair dryers, and all the other small daily stuff is 120V.
But the houses (buildings) have two legs of 120V AC, 180° out of phase with each other. Either leg (A or B) to Neutral is 120V.
Leg A to leg B is 240V. For even power loading (distribution), half of the house wiring (outlets, lights) is on one leg, the other half on the other leg. (Circuit breaker panel rows are wired A-B-A-B-A-B-A... that way it's easy for a double breaker to supply the 240 when needed.)
Better generators will have the two phase outputs instead of single phase (one leg).
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Got it. Makes sense now. Thanks for the explanation.