Hi John, and welcome to ECN. I see you're in Cleveland -- I have memories of waking up on the NYC-Chicago sleeper train to a very crisp, frosty morning in Cleveland and the conductor pointing out the sights on the city skyline as we passed through.
I rather like the 3-wire single-phase system used in North America. It gives the benefits of having 240V available (and thus lower currents) for heavy appliances, but still with only 120V to ground at any point in the system.
Single phase appliances are limited to 1200 W @ 120 V.
Don't you mean 1800 watts (on a 15A circuit) ?
[This message has been edited by pauluk (edited 07-31-2003).]
