[BC] Re: Blower motor Voltage...

[Al Wolfe]

    Technically you are correct but any real electrician would have a fit! 
Ground and neutral are not the same thing except at the entrance panel. One 
can usually run 120 VAC powered items OK using one side of the 240 VAC and 
NEUTRAL, not ground, provided both sides of the 240 are fused and broken by 
the control circuitry.

    A. C. ground currents are generally bad, causes audio ground loops, hot 
chassis, any number of negative results. Amprobe your ground leads sometime 
and it may show up all kinds of interesting issues.

Al
Retired CE, electrician, gopher, etc.
aka K9SI


> Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2006 21:50:16 -0700
> From: "Burt I. Weiner" <biwa at earthlink.net>
> Subject: [BC] Blower motor Voltage...
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> If you have to you can probably run the blower from one side of the
> 220 VAC control ladder to ground.
>
> Burt